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CVE-2023-5912 (GCVE-0-2023-5912)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-05 20:45 – Updated: 2024-08-02 08:14
VLAI
Summary
A potential memory leakage vulnerability was reported in some Lenovo Notebook products that may allow a local attacker with elevated privileges to write to NVRAM variables.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-08 13:19 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Lenovo Notebook BIOS Affected: various
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lenovo notebook Affected: 0 , < * (custom)
    cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:notebook:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Lenovo thanks the BINARLY efiXplorer team for reporting this issue.
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