CVE-2017-3740 in Active Protection System

Summary

In Lenovo Active Protection System before 1.82.0.14, an attacker with local privileges could send commands to the system's embedded controller, which could cause a denial of service attack on the system or the ability to alter hardware functionality.

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• Reservation: 12/16/2016
• Disclosure: 06/04/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-101936 (1)
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-264 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.4
• EPSS: 0.00126
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-3740
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-3740
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-3740/