CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-3614

Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')

Published: Jul 16, 2021 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.8
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.4 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

A vulnerability was reported on some Lenovo Notebook systems that could allow an attacker with physical access to elevate privileges under certain conditions during a BIOS update performed by Lenovo Vantage.

Weakness

When the product encounters an error condition or failure, its design requires it to fall back to a state that is less secure than other options that are available, such as selecting the weakest encryption algorithm or using the most permissive access control restrictions.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Ideapad_1-11ada05_firmware Lenovo fqcn19ww (including) fqcn19ww (including)

Potential Mitigations

References