Unset Write Protection Lock Bit Vulnerability in Lenovo and IBM System x Servers

CVE-2018-9085 · MEDIUM Severity

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

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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