Vulnerability in Lenovo Thinkvantage System Update
CVE-2008-3249
The client in Lenovo System Update before 3.14 does not properly validate the certificate when establishing an SSL connection, which allows remote attackers to install arbitrary packages via an SSL certificate whose X.509 headers match a public certificate used by IBM.
EPSS: 0.013 (67.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Lenovo Thinkvantage_system_update — versions 3.13
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)