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CVE-2016-8226
The BIOS in Lenovo System X M5, M6, and X6 systems allows administrators to cause a denial of service via updating a UEFI data structure.
Medium4.9EPSS 0.92%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- lenovo
Description
The BIOS in Lenovo System X M5, M6, and X6 systems allows administrators to cause a denial of service via updating a UEFI data structure.
Timeline
ID reserved
By lenovo
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium4.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.92% · top 39% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.9.
Weakness
- Denial of service
- CWE-19 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-19 and its CVEs
Affected products
Lenovo Group Ltd. · System X M5, M6, and X6 BIOS
- affected various
References (2)
- 95844 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-11306 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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