What is CVE-2022-48181?

CVE-2022-48181 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lenovo Ideacentre 3 07ach7, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2023-06-05.

How severe is CVE-2022-48181?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Lenovo Ideacentre 3 07ach7

CVE-2022-48181

An ErrorMessage driver stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in BIOS of some ThinkPad models could allow an attacker with local access to elevate their privileges and execute arbitrary code.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2023-06-05 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (9.0th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 9th percentile — 9.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-124495 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-48181?: CVE-2022-48181 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Lenovo Ideacentre 3 07ach7, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2023-06-05.
How severe is CVE-2022-48181?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.