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CVE-2018-9069
BIOS Write Protection Race Condition
Medium5.9EPSS 0.53%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- lenovo
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Weakness
- Privilege escalation
- CWE-362 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-362 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected various – < various
References (1)
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-20184 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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