VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-3740

medium
Published 2017-06-04 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

In Lenovo Active Protection System before 1.82.0.14, an attacker with local privileges could send commands to the system's embedded controller, which could cause a denial of service attack on the system or the ability to alter hardware functionality.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
lenovoactive_protection_system1.00b
lenovoactive_protection_system1.01b
lenovoactive_protection_system1.20b
lenovoactive_protection_system1.21
lenovoactive_protection_system1.22
lenovoactive_protection_system1.23
lenovoactive_protection_system1.30b
lenovoactive_protection_system1.31
lenovoactive_protection_system1.32
lenovoactive_protection_system1.33b
lenovoactive_protection_system1.34
lenovoactive_protection_system1.40
lenovoactive_protection_system1.41
lenovoactive_protection_system1.50
lenovoactive_protection_system1.51
lenovoactive_protection_system1.52
lenovoactive_protection_system1.53
lenovoactive_protection_system1.54
lenovoactive_protection_system1.61
lenovoactive_protection_system1.62
lenovoactive_protection_system1.63
lenovoactive_protection_system1.64
lenovoactive_protection_system1.70
lenovoactive_protection_system1.71
lenovoactive_protection_system1.72
lenovoactive_protection_system1.73
lenovoactive_protection_system1.74
lenovoactive_protection_system1.75
lenovoactive_protection_system1.76
lenovoactive_protection_system1.77.0.5
lenovoactive_protection_system1.77.0.7
lenovoactive_protection_system1.77.0.8
lenovoactive_protection_system1.77.0.9
lenovoactive_protection_system1.77.0.11
lenovoactive_protection_system1.77.0.20
lenovoactive_protection_system1.77.0.26
lenovoactive_protection_system1.78.0.09
lenovoactive_protection_system1.78.0.10
lenovoactive_protection_system1.78.0.11
lenovoactive_protection_system1.79.0.03
lenovoactive_protection_system1.80.1.00
lenovoactive_protection_system1.80.3.00
lenovoactive_protection_system1.80.8.00
lenovoactive_protection_system1.80.11.00
lenovoactive_protection_system1.81.0.08
lenovoactive_protection_system1.82.0.03
lenovoactive_protection_system1.82.0.06
lenovoactive_protection_system1.82.0.07
lenovoactive_protection_system1.82.0.10

References

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

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