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CVE-2021-3453 (GCVE-0-2021-3453)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-07-16 20:30 – Updated: 2025-12-16 17:56
VLAI
Summary
Some Lenovo Notebook, ThinkPad, and Lenovo Desktop systems have BIOS modules unprotected by Intel Boot Guard that could allow an attacker with physical access the ability to write to the SPI flash storage.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-16 17:55 UTC
CWE
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Lenovo BIOS Affected: various
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