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CVE-2016-8235
Privilege escalation in Lenovo Customer Care Software Development Kit (CCSDK) versions earlier than 2.0.16.3 allows local users to execute…
High7.8EPSS 0.42%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- lenovo
Description
Privilege escalation in Lenovo Customer Care Software Development Kit (CCSDK) versions earlier than 2.0.16.3 allows local users to execute code with elevated privileges.
Timeline
ID reserved
By lenovo
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.42% · top 64% 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: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Privilege Escalation
- CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-264 and its CVEs
Affected products
Lenovo Group Ltd. · Customer Care Software Development Kit (CCSDK)
- affected Earlier than 2.0.16.3
References (2)
- 97543 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-11340 (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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