cve-2023-25494
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-04-05 20:46
Modified
2024-08-02 11:25
Severity ?
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
A potential vulnerability were reported in the BIOS of some Desktop, Smart Edge, and ThinkStation products that could allow a local attacker with elevated privileges to write to NVRAM variables.
References
psirt@lenovo.comhttps://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-141775
Impacted products
LenovoDesktop BIOS, Smart Edge BIOS, ThinkStation BIOS
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