CVE-2016-8225

high

Published 2017-01-26 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.8

Description

Unquoted service path vulnerability in Lenovo Edge and Lenovo Slim USB Keyboard Driver versions earlier than 1.21 allows local users to execute code with elevated privileges.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
lenovo	edge_keyboard_driver	`{"endIncluding":"1.20"}`
lenovo	slim_usb_keyboard_driver	`{"endIncluding":"1.20"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-428

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.