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CVE-2026-9046 (GCVE-0-2026-9046)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-16 16:48 – Updated: 2026-07-16 17:51
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Summary
A potential insecure permissions vulnerability was reported in Legion Zone and the Lenovo App Store Windows applications, distributed exclusively in the Chinese market, that when installed on a non‑system partition, could allow a local user to execute arbitrary code.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-16 17:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-277 - Insecure Inherited Permissions Description
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Lenovo Legion Zone Affected: 0 , < 2.0.26 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:lenovo:legion_zone:*:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*
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Lenovo App Store Affected: 0 , < 9.0.29 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:lenovo:app_store:*:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*
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