CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-3756

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in Lenovo Active Protection System for ThinkPad systems versions earlier than 1.82.0.17. An attacker with local privileges could execute code with administrative privileges via an unquoted service path.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability could lead to unauthorized access to the system and execution of malicious code with administrative privileges, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Lenovo Active Protection System to version 1.82.0.17 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in Lenovo Active Protection System for ThinkPad systems versions earlier than 1.82.0.17. An attacker with local privileges could execute code with administrative privileges via an unquoted service path.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS