A denial of service vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo HardwareScanPlugin versions prior to 1.3.1.2 and  Lenovo Diagnostics vers

Affected versions

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

• lenovo diagnosticsbefore 4.45.0
• lenovo hardwarescan addinbefore 2.4.1.1
• lenovo hardwarescan pluginbefore 1.3.1.2

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 Diagnostics

  • before 4.45affected

• Lenovo HardwareScanPlugin

  • before 1.3.1.2affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2022-3699 A privilege escalation vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo HardwareScanPlugin prior to version 1.3.1.2 and Lenovo Diagnostics prior to
  32Monitor
• CVE-2020-8338A DLL search path vulnerability was reported in Lenovo Diagnostics prior to version 4.35.4 that could allow a user with local access to exec
  31Monitor
• CVE-2026-0827During an internal security assessment, a potential vulnerability was discovered in Lenovo Diagnostics and the HardwareScanAddin used in Len
  27Monitor
• CVE-2022-3698 A denial of service vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo HardwareScanPlugin versions prior to 1.3.1.2 and  Lenovo Diagnostics vers
  17Monitor

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

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1function expand(node) {2  return node.children.map(expand);3}

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;2function expand(node, depth = 0) {3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.