| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Lenovo IdeaPad. This affects an unknown part of the component BIOS Flash Device Lock. Executing a manipulation can lead to race condition. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2018-9069. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Lenovo IdeaPad (affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component BIOS Flash Device Lock. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
In some Lenovo IdeaPad consumer notebook models, a race condition in the BIOS flash device locking mechanism is not adequately protected against, potentially allowing an attacker with administrator access to alter the contents of BIOS.
The bug was discovered 09/20/2018. The weakness was published 10/02/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.lenovo.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2018-9069 since 03/27/2018. The attack can be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 12 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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Product
Vendor
Name
License
Website
- Vendor: https://www.lenovo.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.0
VulDB Base Score: 4.1
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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NVD Base Score: 5.9
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Exploiting
Class: Race conditionCWE: CWE-362
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
03/27/2018 🔍09/20/2018 🔍
10/02/2018 🔍
10/02/2018 🔍
10/03/2018 🔍
03/29/2020 🔍
Sources
Vendor: lenovo.comAdvisory: support.lenovo.com
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍
CVE: CVE-2018-9069 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-9069
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-124720
Entry
Created: 10/03/2018 08:03Updated: 03/29/2020 09:58
Changes: 10/03/2018 08:03 (55), 03/29/2020 09:58 (2)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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