CVE-2021-3452 is a potential vulnerability affecting certain Lenovo ThinkPad models, residing in the system shutdown SMI callback function. An attacker with local access and elevated privileges could exploit this to execute arbitrary code. With a CVSS score of 6.7 (Medium), it requires high privileges and local access, but successful exploitation could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has received some community and media attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:bios:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.