CVE-2021-36325: Dell Alienware 13 r3 Firmware

Medium severity, CVSS 6.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Dell BIOS contains an improper input validation vulnerability. A local authenticated malicious user may potentially exploit this vulnerability by using an SMI to gain arbitrary code execution in SMRAM.

Affected products

Dell Alienware 13 r3 Firmware: before 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.0)
Dell Alienware 15 r3 Firmware: before 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.0)
Dell Alienware 15 r4 Firmware: before 1.14.0 (fixed in 1.14.0)
Dell Alienware 17 r4 Firmware: before 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.0)
Dell Alienware 17 r5 Firmware: before 1.14.0 (fixed in 1.14.0)
Dell Alienware Area 51m r1 Firmware: before 1.15.1 (fixed in 1.15.1)
Dell Alienware Area 51m r2 Firmware: before 1.10.0 (fixed in 1.10.0)
Dell Alienware Aurora r11 Firmware: before 1.0.9 (fixed in 1.0.9)
Dell Alienware Aurora r12 Firmware: before 1.1.7 (fixed in 1.1.7)
Dell Alienware Aurora r7 Firmware: before 1.0.25 (fixed in 1.0.25)
Dell Alienware Aurora r8 Firmware: before 1.0.17 (fixed in 1.0.17)
Dell Alienware Aurora r9 Firmware: before 1.0.14 (fixed in 1.0.14)
Dell Alienware Aurora Ryzen Edition Firmware: before 2.2.4 (fixed in 2.2.4)
Dell Alienware m15 r1 Firmware: before 2.9.0 (fixed in 2.9.0)
Dell Alienware m15 r2 Firmware: before 1.9.0 (fixed in 1.9.0)
Dell Alienware m15 r3 Firmware: before 1.11.0 (fixed in 1.11.0)
Dell Alienware m17 r1 Firmware: before 2.9.0 (fixed in 2.9.0)
Dell Alienware m17 r2 Firmware: before 1.9.0 (fixed in 1.9.0)
Dell Alienware m17 r3 Firmware: before 1.11.0 (fixed in 1.11.0)
Dell Alienware x15 r1 Firmware: before 1.4.0 (fixed in 1.4.0)
Dell Alienware x17 r1 Firmware: before 1.4.0 (fixed in 1.4.0)
Dell Chengming 3977 Firmware: before 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.0)
Dell Chengming 3980 Firmware: before 2.19.0 (fixed in 2.19.0)
Dell Chengming 3988 Firmware: before 1.7.0 (fixed in 1.7.0)
Dell Chengming 3990 Firmware: before 1.5.1 (fixed in 1.5.1)
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Published 2021-11-12. Last modified 2026-10-08.