CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-5729

Published: Jun 30, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025

CVSS 3.x

8.2

HIGH

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

6.8 MEDIUM

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

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Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-5729
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

Lenovo BIOS EFI Driver allows local administrators to execute arbitrary code with System Management Mode (SMM) privileges via unspecified vectors.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Bios_efi_driver	Lenovo	- (including)	- (including)

References

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