CVE-2021-3452

6.7 MEDIUM

A potential vulnerability in the system shutdown SMI callback function in some ThinkPad models may allow an attacker with local access an...

Published: 2021-07-16 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 6.7 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE: CWE-20

Affected products

Vendor	Product
lenovo	bios

Description

A potential vulnerability in the system shutdown SMI callback function in some ThinkPad models may allow an attacker with local access and elevated privileges to execute arbitrary code.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3452
[Vendor advisory]https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-65529
[Vendor advisory]https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-65529

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