CVE-2023-5912 (GCVE-0-2023-5912)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-05 20:45 – Updated: 2024-08-02 08:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-08 13:19 UTC
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lenovo | Notebook BIOS |
Affected:
various
|
guessed | |
| lenovo | notebook |
Affected:
0 , < *
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