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Summary
A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Lenovo ThinkPad. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component BIOS Handler. Such manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2018-9062. The attack can be executed directly on the physical device. No exploit is available.
Details
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Lenovo ThinkPad (affected version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component BIOS Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
In some Lenovo ThinkPad products, one BIOS region is not properly included in the checks, allowing injection of arbitrary code.
The bug was discovered 09/20/2018. The weakness was published 07/19/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.lenovo.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-9062 since 03/27/2018. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1055.
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: 5.5VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5
VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.3
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Exploiting
Class: InjectionCWE: CWE-74 / CWE-707 / CWE-20
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Physical: Yes
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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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 🔍07/19/2018 🔍
09/20/2018 🔍
10/16/2019 🔍
01/08/2024 🔍
Sources
Vendor: lenovo.comAdvisory: support.lenovo.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2018-9062 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-9062
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-143480
SecurityFocus: 105387
Entry
Created: 10/16/2019 06:57Updated: 01/08/2024 15:33
Changes: 10/16/2019 06:57 (37), 10/16/2019 07:02 (17), 01/08/2024 15:33 (3)
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