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GHSA-8PXC-53GQ-54C7

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-24 16:53 – Updated: 2022-10-19 19:00

Details

A vulnerability was reported in various BIOS versions of older ThinkPad systems that could allow a user with administrative privileges or physical access the ability to update the Embedded Controller with unsigned firmware.

Severity ?

6.8 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2019-6171 (GCVE-0-2019-6171)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-08-19 14:56 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:03

Summary

Severity ?

6.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

Privilege escalation

Assigner

lenovo

References

URL

Tags

https://support.lenovo.com/solutions/LEN-27764

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Lenovo	BIOS	Affected: various

Credits

Lenovo would like to thank Alex Matrosov and Alexandre Gazet for reporting this issue.

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-8PXC-53GQ-54C7

CVE-2019-6171 (GCVE-0-2019-6171)

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