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FKIE_CVE-2024-23594

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-04-15 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 07:13

Severity

6.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

A buffer overflow vulnerability was reported in a system recovery bootloader that was part of the Lenovo preloaded Windows 7 and 8 operating systems from 2012 to 2014 that could allow a privileged attacker with local access to execute arbitrary code.

References

	URL	Tags
	psirt@lenovo.com	https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-132277
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-132277

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2024-23594 (GCVE-0-2024-23594)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-15 18:01 – Updated: 2024-09-06 22:07

Summary

Severity

6.4 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/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 2024-08-07 15:13 UTC

CWE

CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Assigner

lenovo mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Lenovo	Windows 7 and 8 PC Preloads	Affected: various
lenovo	preload_directory	Affected: 7 , ≤ 8 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:lenovo:preload_directory:-:::::::*

Credits

Lenovo thanks Zammis Clark for reporting this issue.

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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