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3 vulnerabilities found for ideacentre_aio_5-74imb05_firmware by lenovo
FKIE_CVE-2021-3453
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-07-16 21:15 - Updated: 2024-11-21 06:21
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
4.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
Some Lenovo Notebook, ThinkPad, and Lenovo Desktop systems have BIOS modules unprotected by Intel Boot Guard that could allow an attacker with physical access the ability to write to the SPI flash storage.
References
Impacted products
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CVE-2021-3453 (GCVE-0-2021-3453)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-16 20:30 – Updated: 2025-12-16 17:56
VLAI?
Summary
Some Lenovo Notebook, ThinkPad, and Lenovo Desktop systems have BIOS modules unprotected by Intel Boot Guard that could allow an attacker with physical access the ability to write to the SPI flash storage.
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
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Lenovo thanks Binarly efiXplorer team for reporting these issues.
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CVE-2021-3453 (GCVE-0-2021-3453)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2021-07-16 20:30 – Updated: 2025-12-16 17:56
VLAI?
Summary
Some Lenovo Notebook, ThinkPad, and Lenovo Desktop systems have BIOS modules unprotected by Intel Boot Guard that could allow an attacker with physical access the ability to write to the SPI flash storage.
Severity ?
6.8 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
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