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CVE-2018-9062
BIOS Modules Unprotected by Intel Boot Guard Vulnerable to Physical Attack
Medium6.8EPSS 0.53%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- lenovo
Description
In some Lenovo ThinkPad products, one BIOS region is not properly included in the checks, allowing injection of arbitrary code.
Timeline
ID reserved
By lenovo
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 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 | 3.1 | Medium6.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% 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 6.8.
Weakness
- Elevation of privilege
- CWE-74 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-74 and its CVEs
Affected products
Lenovo Group Ltd. · some Lenovo ThinkPads
- affected various
References (2)
- 105387 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-20527 (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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