CVE-2018-9085
Missing System x Flash Memory Write Protection Lock Bit
Vexday Risk Score
3Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS —EPSS 0.7%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
16 Nov 2018Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
A write protection lock bit was left unset after boot on an older generation of Lenovo and IBM System x servers, potentially allowing an attacker with administrator access to modify the subset of flash memory containing Intel Server Platform Services (SPS) and the system Flash Descriptors.
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