CVE-2020-8353: Prior to August 10, 2020, some Lenovo Desktop and Workstation systems were shipped with the Embedded Host Based Configuration (EHBC) feature
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.55% (FIRST EPSS).
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it. Administrator privileges are required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Prior to August 10, 2020, some Lenovo Desktop and Workstation systems were shipped with the Embedded Host Based Configuration (EHBC) feature of Intel AMT enabled. This could allow an administrative user with local access to configure Intel AMT.
- Published
- Nov 11, 2020
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.5% · 46th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-16
Report tools
Action score
26
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 26 / 40 · 6.7 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.5%
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- 6.7
- CNA · lenovo
- 6.7
- agree
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| lenovo | thinkcentre m80t firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:thinkcentre_m80t_firmware |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m80t | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:thinkcentre_m80t |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m80s firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:thinkcentre_m80s_firmware |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m80s | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:thinkcentre_m80s |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m90t firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:thinkcentre_m90t_firmware |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m90t | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:thinkcentre_m90t |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m90s firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:thinkcentre_m90s_firmware |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m90s | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:thinkcentre_m90s |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m910z firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:thinkcentre_m910z_firmware |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m910z | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:thinkcentre_m910z |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m920s firmware | cpe:2.3:o:lenovo:thinkcentre_m920s_firmware |
| lenovo | thinkcentre m920s | cpe:2.3:h:lenovo:thinkcentre_m920s |
and 16 more
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- lenovo thinkcentre m80s firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkcentre m80t firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkcentre m90s firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkcentre m90t firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkcentre m910z firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkcentre m920q firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkcentre m920s firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkcentre m920t firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkcentre m920z firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkstation p330 tiny firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkstation p330s firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkstation p330t firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkstation p340s firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
- lenovo thinkstation p340t firmwarebefore 2020-08-10
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 Desktop and Workstation systems
- unspecified and later · before 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
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Research context
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Timeline
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No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
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Credits
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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
- Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
- Administrator privileges are 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
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-16 · ConfigurationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Change log
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