Vulnerabilites related to Lenovo - System x UEFI
cve-2018-9085
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-11-16 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 07:17
Severity ?
Summary
A write protection lock bit was left unset after boot on an older generation of Lenovo and IBM System x servers, potentially allowing an attacker with administrator access to modify the subset of flash memory containing Intel Server Platform Services (SPS) and the system Flash Descriptors.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Lenovo System x UEFI Version: unspecified   < varies
IBM System x UEFI Version: unspecified   < varies
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