CVE-2026-80238: Dell Secure Connect Gateway

Critical severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dell Secure Connect Gateway: before 5.36.00.00 (fixed in 5.36.00.00); before 5.36.00.16 (fixed in 5.36.00.16)

Published 2026-09-07. Last modified 2026-09-11.