Vulnerability · Published Oct 30, 2023 · Assigned by lenovo

CVE-2022-48189

Medium 6.7

In plain English

A medium-severity improper input validation in ThinkPad BIOS from Lenovo. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 9% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.7Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.8% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An SMM driver input validation vulnerability in the BIOS of some ThinkPad models could allow an attacker with local access and elevated privileges to execute arbitrary code.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Lenovo ThinkPad BIOS various

Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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