Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-79971 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-79971 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-79971?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 5.3, published 9 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Dell Secure Connect Gateway Appliance before 5.36.00.16; Dell Secure Connect Gateway Application before 5.36.00.00.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-79971?
- A patch was published: Fixed in SCG 5.0 Application 5.36.00.00 and Appliance 5.36.00.16 Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
- How is CVE-2026-79971 attacked?
- It is attacked over the network, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-79971?
- Check whether you run Dell Secure Connect Gateway Appliance or Dell Secure Connect Gateway Application at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
CVE-2026-79971 is a script injection vulnerability caused by improper sanitization of custom special characters in Dell SCG 5.0 Appliance (versions before 5.36.00.16) and Application (versions before 5.36.00.00). The vulnerability is network-accessible and requires no authentication or user interaction. An attacker can craft malicious payloads with special characters to bypass input validation and inject scripts into the application, leading to cross-site scripting (XSS) or similar injection attacks. The patched versions are available from Dell.
Affected products
- Dell Secure Connect Gateway Application before 5.36.00.00
- Dell Secure Connect Gateway Appliance before 5.36.00.16
Timeline
- 2026-09-09: disclosed: CVE-2026-79971 disclosed
- patched: Fixed in SCG 5.0 Application 5.36.00.00 and Appliance 5.36.00.16