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CVE-2015-8109

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8109 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Lenovo System Update (versions prior to 5.07.0019). A local attacker could exploit this by predicting credentials for a temporary administrator account, requiring knowledge of its creation time. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.0 (High), indicating a local attack vector with high complexity but high potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, though it did receive some media coverage at the time.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 5.07.0013CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lenovo:lenovo_system_update:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.0HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
29.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0037 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 1,525 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.1 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ioactive.com / pdfs/IOActive_Advisory_Lenovo_SystemUpdate-Insecure-Random-Admin-Password.pdf
ExploitThird Party Advisory
support.lenovo.com / us/en/product_security/lsu_privilege
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/98039