Equipment manufacturer, Lenovo, has disclosed several vendor vulnerabilities in some of its products, which it said could lead to information disclosure, privilege escalation, and denial of service.
These vulnerabilities primarily affect Lenovo Products
(Desktop, Desktop-All in One, Hyperscale, Lenovo Notebook, Smart Office,
Storage, ThinkAgile, ThinkPad, ThinkServer, ThinkStation, and ThinkSystem).
The Nigerian Communications Commission's Computer Security
Incident Response Team (NCC-CSIRT), in its recent advisory, rated the
probability of the vulnerability as high with an equally high damage potential.
It, therefore, urged users of affected products to update their firmware.
The advisory cited the Lenovo report, first published in the
second week of this month, indicating that the vulnerabilities are caused by
flaws in the System Management Interrupt (SMI) Set BIOS Password SMI Handler,
other systems used to configure platform settings over Windows Management
Instrumentation (WMI), and a buffer overflow flaw in WMI SMI Handler.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities could allow
an authenticated local attacker to bypass security restrictions, gain elevated
privileges and execute arbitrary code on the targeted system. The attacker
could also send a specially crafted request to the targeted user to gain
sensitive information, which could result in unauthorized Information
disclosure, privilege escalation and denial of service on the targeted system.
According to NCC-CSIRT, the solution to addressing the
vulnerabilities is for users to update their system firmware to the newer
version(s) indicated for their product model.
The Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) is the telecom sector’s cyber security incidence centre set up by the NCC to focus on incidents in the telecom sector and as they may affect telecom consumers and citizens at large.
The CSIRT also works collaboratively with the Nigeria
Computer Emergency Response Team (ngCERT), established by the Federal
Government to reduce the volume of future computer risk incidents by preparing,
protecting, and securing Nigerian cyberspace to forestall attacks, and problems
or related events.