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CVE-2017-3753· NVD / CVE Program· CNA lenovo

A vulnerability has been identified in some Lenovo products that use UEFI (BIOS) code developed by American Megatrends, Inc.

A vulnerability has been identified in some Lenovo products that use UEFI (BIOS) code developed by American Megatrends, Inc. (AMI). With this vulnerability, conditions exist where an attacker with administrative privileges or physical access to a system may be able to run specially crafted code that can allow them to bypass system protections such as Device Guard and Hyper-V.

MediumCVSS 6.8 · v3.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Aug 9, 2017
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
0.5% · 42th percentile
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Action score

27

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
27 / 40 · 6.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.5%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
lenovoideacentre 300-20ish firmware
lenovoideacentre 300-20ish
lenovoideacentre 300s-11ish firmware
lenovoideacentre 300s-11ish
lenovoideacentre 510s-08ish firmware
lenovoideacentre 510s-08ish
lenovoideacentre 700 firmware
lenovoideacentre 700
lenovo63 firmware
lenovo63
lenovoh50-30g firmware
lenovoh50-30g

and 188 more

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • lenovo 63 firmwarefckt78a
  • lenovo h50-30g firmwarefckt78a
  • lenovo ideacentre 300-20ish firmwareall versions
  • lenovo ideacentre 300s-11ish firmwareall versions
  • lenovo ideacentre 510s-08ish firmwareall versions
  • lenovo ideacentre 510s-23isu firmwareo2ekt24a
  • lenovo ideacentre 700 firmwareall versions
  • lenovo m4500 firmwarefckt78a
  • lenovo m4500 id firmwarefckt78a
  • lenovo m4550 id firmwarefckt78a
  • lenovo s200z firmwarem09kt33a
  • lenovo s500 firmwarem0kkt24a
  • lenovo thinkcentre e73 firmwarefckt78a
  • lenovo thinkcentre e73s firmwarefckt78a
  • lenovo thinkcentre e73z (aio) firmwarefgkt49a
  • lenovo thinkcentre e74 firmwarem05kt54a
  • lenovo thinkcentre e74s firmwarem05kt54a
  • lenovo thinkcentre e74z firmwarefvkt48a
  • lenovo thinkcentre e75 t/s firmwareall versions
  • lenovo thinkcentre e79 firmwarem0lkt12a

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (lenovo). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Lenovo Group Ltd. Desktop and Notebook BIOS

    • variousaffected

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Physical access to the device is required.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Physical
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

CVSS vector

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

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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