A write protection lock bit was left unset after boot on an older generation of Lenovo and IBM System x servers, potentially allowing an attacker with administrator access to modify the subset of flash memory containing Intel Server Platform Services (SPS) and the system Flash Descriptors.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-20688 A write protection lock bit was left unset after boot on an older generation of Lenovo and IBM System x servers, potentially allowing an attacker with administrator access to modify the subset of flash memory containing Intel Server Platform Services (SPS) and the system Flash Descriptors.
Fixes

Solution

Update UEFI firmware


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: lenovo

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T07:17:50.596Z

Reserved: 2018-03-27T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-9085

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-11-16T14:29:00.427

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:14:56.817

Link: CVE-2018-9085

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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