CVE-2019-19756 — An internal product security audit of Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA) disco

An internal product security audit of Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA) discovered Windows OS credentials, used to perform driver updates of managed systems, being written to a log file in clear text. This only affects LXCA version 2.6.0 when performing a Windows driver update

01What is this vulnerability?

An internal product security audit of Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA) discovered Windows OS credentials, used to perform driver updates of managed systems, being written to a log file in clear text. This only affects LXCA version 2.6.0 when performing a Windows driver update. Affected logs are only accessible to authorized users in the First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) service log and log…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Lenovo	XClarity Administrator (LXCA)	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-03-13T15:40:14.275Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-16T16:32:57.281Z

09References

• support.lenovo.com — https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-29942