CVE-2018-9085 Missing System x Flash Memory Write Protection Lock Bit

2018-11-1614:00:00

lenovo

www.cve.org

4.9 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

19.9%

JSON

A write protection lock bit was left unset after boot on an older generation of Lenovo and IBM System x servers, potentially allowing an attacker with administrator access to modify the subset of flash memory containing Intel Server Platform Services (SPS) and the system Flash Descriptors.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "System x UEFI",
    "vendor": "Lenovo",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "varies",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "System x UEFI",
    "vendor": "IBM",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThan": "varies",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "unspecified",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References

support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-24477