Dell Secure Connect Gateway prior 5.36.00.16/5.36.00.00 privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Secure Connect Gateway. It has been declared as very critical. Impacted is an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to privileges management. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-80238. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Dell Secure Connect Gateway. It has been declared as very critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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 an Execution with Unnecessary Privileges vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with local access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to Protection mechanism bypass. This vulnerability is considered critical because a low-privileged operator with SSH access to the SCG host can gain root-level access to the host without requiring a password by leveraging the exposed Docker socket. Additionally, an attacker who compromises a service running within the orchestrator container can access the same socket and escape the container boundary to obtain host-level control. Dell recommends that customers upgrade at the earliest opportunity.

The advisory is shared for download at dell.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-80238 since 08/26/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 09/07/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 5.36.00.16 or 5.36.00.00 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Dell

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• Secure Connect Gateway

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.dell.com/

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