CVE-2021-36285CWE-307

Dell BIOS contains an Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability

Medium · published September 28, 2021

CVSS v3.1
5.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Dell BIOS contains an Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious administrator could exploit this vulnerability to bypass excessive NVMe password attempt mitigations in order to carry out a brute force attack.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.7 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00232 · 13.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-307 · Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts
Published
2021-09-28T19:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 28 SEP 19:20Z
    Dell BIOS contains an Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts vulnerability
    cvelistv5