CVE-2026-79968 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Details

CVE-2026-79968
Vulnerability Scoring

5.6
/10
Significant Risk

Security assessments indicate that CVE-2026-79968 presents a notable risk, potentially requiring prompt mitigation.

Attack Complexity Details

  • Attack Complexity: High
    Exploits require significant effort and special conditions.
  • Attack Vector: Network
    Vulnerability is exploitable over a network without physical access.
  • Privileges Required: None
    No privileges are required for exploitation.
  • Scope: Unchanged
    Exploit remains within the originally vulnerable component.
  • User Interaction: None
    No user interaction is necessary for exploitation.

CVE-2026-79968 Details

Status: Analyzed

Published on: 09 Sep 2026, 13:20 UTC

CVSS Release: version 3

CVSS3 Source

security_alert@emc.com

CVSS3 Type

Secondary

CVSS3 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVE-2026-79968 Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-79968: 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 a Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker with remote access could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial of service.

Assessing the Risk of CVE-2026-79968

Access Complexity Graph

The exploitability of CVE-2026-79968 depends on two key factors: attack complexity (the level of effort required to execute an exploit) and privileges required (the access level an attacker needs).

Exploitability Analysis for CVE-2026-79968

CVE-2026-79968 presents a challenge to exploit due to its high attack complexity, but the absence of privilege requirements still makes it a viable target for skilled attackers. A thorough security review is advised.

Understanding AC and PR

A lower complexity and fewer privilege requirements make exploitation easier. Security teams should evaluate these aspects to determine the urgency of mitigation strategies, such as patch management and access control policies.

Attack Complexity (AC) measures the difficulty in executing an exploit. A high AC means that specific conditions must be met, making an attack more challenging, while a low AC means the vulnerability can be exploited with minimal effort.

Privileges Required (PR) determine the level of system access necessary for an attack. Vulnerabilities requiring no privileges are more accessible to attackers, whereas high privilege requirements limit exploitation to authorized users with elevated access.

CVSS Score Breakdown Chart

Above is the CVSS Sub-score Breakdown for CVE-2026-79968, illustrating how Base, Impact, and Exploitability factors combine to form the overall severity rating. A higher sub-score typically indicates a more severe or easier-to-exploit vulnerability.

CIA Impact Analysis

Below is the Impact Analysis for CVE-2026-79968, showing how Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability might be affected if the vulnerability is exploited. Higher values usually signal greater potential damage.

  • Confidentiality: Low
    CVE-2026-79968 could lead to minor leaks of non-critical information without major privacy breaches.
  • Integrity: Low
    Exploiting CVE-2026-79968 may cause minor changes to data without severely impacting its accuracy.
  • Availability: Low
    CVE-2026-79968 may slightly degrade system performance without fully affecting service availability.

CVE-2026-79968 References

External References

CWE Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-367

CAPEC Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

  • Leveraging Race Conditions via Symbolic Links CAPEC-27 This attack leverages the use of symbolic links (Symlinks) in order to write to sensitive files. An attacker can create a Symlink link to a target file not otherwise accessible to them. When the privileged program tries to create a temporary file with the same name as the Symlink link, it will actually write to the target file pointed to by the attackers' Symlink link. If the attacker can insert malicious content in the temporary file they will be writing to the sensitive file by using the Symlink. The race occurs because the system checks if the temporary file exists, then creates the file. The attacker would typically create the Symlink during the interval between the check and the creation of the temporary file.
  • Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions CAPEC-29 This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. A typical example is file access. The adversary can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that they would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the adversary could replace or modify the file, causing the application to behave unexpectedly.

Vulnerable Configurations

  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:-:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:-:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:3.52.10.08:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:3.52.10.08:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.00.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.00.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.10.00.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.10.00.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.10.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.10.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.10.00.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.10.00.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.10.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.10.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.12.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.12.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.12.00.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.12.00.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.12.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.12.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.12:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.12:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.16:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.16:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.16:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.16:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.16:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.14.00.16:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.16.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.16.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.16.00.14:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.16.00.14:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.18.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.18.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.18.00.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.18.00.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.18.00.20:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.18.00.20:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.18.00.20:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.18.00.20:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.20.00.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.20.00.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.20.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.20.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.20.00.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.20.00.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.20.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.20.00.10:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.16:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.16:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.18:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.22.00.18:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.14:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.14:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.14:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.14:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.26:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.24.00.26:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.26.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.26.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.26.00.18:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.26.00.18:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.26.00.20:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.26.00.20:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.28.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.28.00.00:*:*:*:application:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.28.00.14:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*
    cpe:2.3:a:dell:secure_connect_gateway:5.28.00.14:*:*:*:virtual:*:*:*

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