Lenovo UEFI Vulnerability: Bypassing System Protections with Specially Crafted Code

Lenovo UEFI Vulnerability: Bypassing System Protections with Specially Crafted Code

CVE-2017-3753 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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