Vulnerabilites related to Lenovo Group Ltd. - Various ThinkPad products
cve-2018-16098
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-01-24 22:00
Modified
2024-09-16 16:32
Severity ?
Summary
In some Lenovo ThinkPads, an unquoted search path vulnerability was found in various versions of the Synaptics Pointing Device driver which could allow unauthorized code execution as a low privilege user.
References
Impacted products
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