Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-80171 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-80171 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-80171?
- Medium severity, with a CVSS score of 4.7, published 9 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- Dell Secure Connect Gateway Appliance prior to 5.36.00.16; Dell Secure Connect Gateway Application prior to 5.36.00.00.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-80171?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-80171 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-80171?
- 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-2026-80171 is an insufficient entropy vulnerability in the pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) used by Dell SCG 5.0 prior to version 5.36.00.16 (appliance) or 5.36.00.00 (application). The vulnerability allows a low-privileged local attacker to exploit predictable randomness in cryptographic operations, potentially leading to privilege escalation. The root cause lies in inadequate entropy seeding or use of a weak PRNG algorithm in security-sensitive contexts. No authentication is required; only local access is needed. A patch is available in versions 5.36.00.16 and later.
Affected products
- Dell Secure Connect Gateway Appliance prior to 5.36.00.16
- Dell Secure Connect Gateway Application prior to 5.36.00.00
Timeline
- 2026-09-09: disclosed