Race Condition Vulnerability in Lenovo System Interface Foundation
CVE-2021-3922

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Lenovo
Status
Imcontroller
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 May 2022

Summary

A race condition vulnerability exists in the IMController component of Lenovo's System Interface Foundation, which is present in versions prior to 1.1.20.3. This vulnerability could enable a local attacker to exploit the system by connecting to and manipulating the named pipe of the IMController child process, potentially compromising system integrity and user data.

Affected Version(s)

IMController < 1.1.20.3

References

https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-75210
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Lenovo thanks Rick Veldhoven from Fox-IT, part of NCC Group for reporting this issue.
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