CVSS 3.1
4.4 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2021-36285
Medium (4.4) in dell. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 14% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-307
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- dell:latitude_5310_2-in-1_firmware
- dell:latitude_5320_firmware
- dell:latitude_5400_firmware
- dell:latitude_5411_firmware
- dell:latitude_5500_firmware
- dell:latitude_5511_firmware
- dell:latitude_5520_firmware
- dell:latitude_7212_rugged_extreme_tablet_firmware
- dell:latitude_7280_firmware
- dell:latitude_7320_firmware
- dell:latitude_7370_firmware
- dell:latitude_7420_firmware
- dell:latitude_7480_firmware
- dell:latitude_9410_firmware
- dell:latitude_9510_firmware
- dell:latitude_9520_firmware
- dell:optiplex_3080_firmware
- dell:optiplex_3280_aio_firmware
- dell:optiplex_7480_aio_firmware
- dell:precision_3551_ffirmware
- dell:precision_3640_tower_firmware