CVE-2021-36309: Dell Enterprise SONiC OS

Plaintext password storage in Dell Enterprise SONiC OS

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.0064 · 51st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: dell) at 1 Oct 2021, 20:20 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Dell	Enterprise SONiC OS	affected unspecified to before 3.4.0 custom

Identifiers

CVE-2021-36309

CNA

dell

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-256

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.1	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (dell)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0064, the 51st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 1 Oct 2021. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000191690/DSA-2021-190-Dell-Enterprise-SONiC-OS-Security-Update-for-an-information-disclosure-Vulnerability

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.