Description

Dell SCG 5.0 Appliance versions prior to 5.36.00.16 and Dell SCG 5.0 Application versions prior to 5.36.00.00, contains a Least Privilege Violation vulnerability. A high privileged attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to unauthorized access.

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  "score": "3.4",
  "pubDate": "2026-09-09T16:17:07.467Z",
  "pubdate": "2026-09-09T16:17:07.467Z",
  "executiveSummary": "Dell Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) 5.0 appliance and application editions are susceptible to a security flaw classified as a Least Privilege Violation.\nThis vulnerability stems from insufficient enforcement of access control policies, which allows an authenticated attacker with local system access to escalate their capabilities beyond their authorized permission set.\nThe scope of impact involves unauthorized access to sensitive system resources or functions that should be restricted to administrative or service-level accounts.\nAffected products include Dell SCG 5.0 Appliance versions prior to 5.36.00.16 and Dell SCG 5.0 Application versions prior to 5.36.00.00.\nSuccessful exploitation requires the attacker to already possess local access to the target environment, representing a significant risk to the principle of least privilege within the system architecture.\nBy bypassing defined security constraints, an attacker could potentially gain unauthorized access to underlying system operations, leading to potential data compromise or further administrative manipulation.",
  "technicalDetails": "The identified vulnerability is categorized as a Least Privilege Violation, occurring when an application fails to restrict user actions to the minimum set of privileges required for its designated function. In the context of Dell SCG 5.0, the system components fail to adequately validate or enforce authorization boundaries for locally authenticated users.\nThe root cause pertains to an improper authorization implementation where internal processes or system interfaces do not verify the security context of the initiator before executing sensitive operations. Because the system fails to correctly apply granular access controls, an attacker who has established local access to the appliance or the host running the SCG application can interact with administrative functions that remain improperly accessible.\nThe attack flow commences with the adversary establishing a local interactive session or gaining low-privileged shell access to the host environment. Once inside, the attacker probes for interfaces, command-line utilities, or service endpoints that manage system configuration, state, or sensitive data access. Since the application fails to perform secondary validation of the caller's identity or authorization level, it incorrectly honors requests that should otherwise be denied.\nThe exploitation method leverages this deficiency to bypass standard security checks, allowing the attacker to interact with backend services or administrative APIs that are exposed locally. The payload behavior involves the submission of unauthorized commands to these improperly protected interfaces. Post-exploitation impact may include unauthorized access to configuration files, modification of system settings, or the extraction of information that would normally be shielded from the compromised account's privilege level.\nThis vulnerability is confined to local exploitation, requiring the adversary to have previously bypassed initial system perimeter defenses or established a foothold on the server. The lack of network exposure means the vulnerability cannot be exploited remotely unless the attacker has already gained local access to the underlying OS. The persistence of this privilege violation indicates a failure in the application's internal security architecture, necessitating strict adherence to version-based patching to restore correct authorization enforcement."
}