CVE-2022-3699 — A privilege escalation vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo HardwareScanPlug

A privilege escalation vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo HardwareScanPlugin prior to version 1.3.1.2 and Lenovo Diagnostics prior to version 4.45

01What is this vulnerability?

A privilege escalation vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo HardwareScanPlugin prior to version 1.3.1.2 and Lenovo Diagnostics prior to version 4.45

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
—	Lenovo / HardwareScanPlugin —	—
—	Lenovo / Diagnostics —	—

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: 2023-10-24T20:48:23.213Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-17T14:17:40.247Z

09References

• support.lenovo.com — https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-94532
• support.lenovo.com — https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-102365