CVE-2021-3718: A denial of service vulnerability was reported in some ThinkPad models that could cause a system to crash when the Enhanced Biometrics setting is enabled in…

PriorityP411medium4.6CVSS 3.1

AVPACLPRNUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

0.21%

11.3th percentile

A denial of service vulnerability was reported in some ThinkPad models that could cause a system to crash when the Enhanced Biometrics setting is enabled in BIOS.

Affected

43 ranges· showing 25

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
lenovo	thinkpad_11e_3rd_gen_firmware	<= 1.22	—
lenovo	thinkpad_11e_3rd_gen_firmware	<= 1.29	—
lenovo	thinkpad_11e_4th_gen_celeron_firmware	<= 1.27	—
lenovo	thinkpad_11e_4th_gen_i3_firmware	<= 1.22	—
lenovo	thinkpad_11e_4th_gen_i5_firmware	<= 1.22	—
lenovo	thinkpad_11e_4th_gen_i7_firmware	<= 1.22	—
lenovo	thinkpad_11e_5th_gen_firmware	<= 1.13	—
lenovo	thinkpad_11e_yoga_gen_6_firmware	<= 1.12	—
lenovo	thinkpad_13_gen_2_firmware	<= 1.29	—
lenovo	thinkpad_bios	—	—
lenovo	thinkpad_e490_firmware	<= 1.30	—
lenovo	thinkpad_e490s_firmware	<= 1.30	—
lenovo	thinkpad_e590_firmware	<= 1.30	—
lenovo	thinkpad_l13_firmware	<= 1.31	—
lenovo	thinkpad_l13_gen_2_firmware	<= 1.11	—
lenovo	thinkpad_l13_gen_2_firmware	<= 1.08	—
lenovo	thinkpad_l13_yoga_firmware	<= 1.31	—
lenovo	thinkpad_l13_yoga_gen_2_firmware	<= 1.11	—
lenovo	thinkpad_l13_yoga_gen_2_firmware	<= 1.08	—
lenovo	thinkpad_l14_firmware	< 1.20.1.17	1.20.1.17
lenovo	thinkpad_l14_gen_1_firmware	< 1.15	1.15
lenovo	thinkpad_l15_firmware	< 1.20.1.17	1.20.1.17
lenovo	thinkpad_l15_gen_1_firmware	< 1.15	1.15
lenovo	thinkpad_l380_firmware	<= 1.26	—
lenovo	thinkpad_l380_yoga_firmware	<= 1.26	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.14.6MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.7MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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