CVE-2025-10237: During an internal security assessment, a potential vulnerability was discovered in some ThinkPad embedded controller firmware that could al
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 33/100)
- 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: 0.07% (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
During an internal security assessment, a potential vulnerability was discovered in some ThinkPad embedded controller firmware that could allow a privileged local user to perform arbitrary reads or writes to privileged memory regions.
- Published
- Jun 10, 2026
- Updated
- Oct 7, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.0% · 0th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-327
Report tools
Action score
33
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 33 / 40 · 8.4 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.0%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
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- CNA · lenovo
- 8.4
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- No public exploit code on record
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Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (lenovo). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Lenovo L13 (type 20R3, 20R4) Laptops (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.45affected
Lenovo L13 2-in-1 Gen 6 (Type 21R7, 21R8) Laptops (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.10affected
Lenovo L13 Gen 4 (Type 21FG, 21FH) Laptop (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.24affected
Lenovo L13 Gen 5 (Type 21LB, 21LC) Laptops (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.21affected
Lenovo L13 Gen 6 (Type 21RB, 21RC) Laptops (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.15affected
Lenovo L13 Yoga Gen 3 (Type 21B5, 21B6) Laptop (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.31affected
Lenovo L14 Gen 2 (type 20X5, 20X6) Laptop (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.36affected
Lenovo L14 Gen 2 Type 20X1 20X2 Laptops (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.73affected
Lenovo L14 Gen 3 (type 21C1, 21C2) Laptops (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.44affected
Lenovo L14 Gen 3 (type 21C5, 21C6) Laptops (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.36affected
Lenovo L14 Gen 4 (Type 21H1, 21H2) Laptop (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.34affected
Lenovo L14 Gen 5 (Type 21L1, 21L2) Laptops (ThinkPad) BIOS
- before 1.27affected
Same product
lenovo: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2025-10238During an internal security assessment, a potential out-of-bounds write vulnerability was discovered in the BIOS of some ThinkPad products c33Monitor
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.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
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
- 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
- Integrity
- Availability
- Attack vector
- Local
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- X
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-327 · Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic AlgorithmCVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- Encryption Brute ForcingCAPEC-20likelihood: Low · Low
- Creating a Rogue Certification Authority CertificateCAPEC-459likelihood: Medium · Very High
- Signature SpoofCAPEC-473
- Signature Spoofing by Improper ValidationCAPEC-475likelihood: Low · High
- Cryptanalysis of Cellular EncryptionCAPEC-608High
- Rooting SIM CardsCAPEC-614High
- CryptanalysisCAPEC-97likelihood: Low · Very High
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.