CVE-2022-3699
A privilege escalation vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo HardwareScanPlugin prior to version 1.3.1.2 and Lenovo Diagnostics prior…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo HardwareScanPlugin prior to version 1.3.1.2 and Lenovo Diagnostics prior to version 4.45 that could allow a local user to execute code with elevated privileges.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Lenovo Diagnostics Driver IOCTL memmove (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/local/cve_2022_3699_lenovo_diagnostics_driverRank gooddisclosed 9 Nov 2022
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By lenovo
- 12 months later
· 12 months later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| lenovoCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 8.8% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
- affected < 1.3.1.2
- affected < 4.45
What to do
Solution: Update to Lenovo Diagnostics Application v4.45 or later. Update the Lenovo HardwareScan Plugin to version 1.3.1.2 or later.
References
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)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-43057 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-3699)Record last updated .