Lenovo Dispatcher Driver 3.0/3.1 exposed ioctl with insufficient access control
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Summary
A vulnerability was found in Lenovo Dispatcher Driver 3.0/3.1 and classified as critical. The impacted element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to exposed ioctl with insufficient access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-8061. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Lenovo Dispatcher Driver 3.0/3.1 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a exposed ioctl with insufficient access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-782. The product implements an IOCTL with functionality that should be restricted, but it does not properly enforce access control for the IOCTL. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
A potential insufficient access control vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo Dispatcher 3.0 and Dispatcher 3.1 drivers used by some Lenovo consumer notebooks that could allow an authenticated local user to execute code with elevated privileges. The Lenovo Dispatcher 3.2 driver is not affected. This vulnerability does not affect systems when the Windows feature Core Isolation Memory Integrity is enabled. Lenovo systems preloaded with Windows 11 have this feature enabled by default.
The weakness was released by Yishun Zeng. The advisory is available at support.lenovo.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-8061 since 07/22/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.
Upgrading to version 3.1.0.41 or 3.2 eliminates this vulnerability.
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Product
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Website
- Vendor: https://www.lenovo.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.8
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Exploiting
Class: Exposed ioctl with insufficient access controlCWE: CWE-782
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
0-Day Time: 🔒
Upgrade: Dispatcher Driver 3.1.0.41/3.2
Timeline
07/22/2025 CVE reserved09/12/2025 Advisory disclosed
09/12/2025 VulDB entry created
09/12/2025 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Vendor: lenovo.comAdvisory: support.lenovo.com
Researcher: Yishun Zeng
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2025-8061 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-8061
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-323726
Entry
Created: 09/12/2025 07:52Changes: 09/12/2025 07:52 (76)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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