CVE-2018-9085

Missing System x Flash Memory Write Protection Lock Bit

published November 16, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
50.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00664 · 50.9th percentile
Published
2018-11-16T14:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 NOV 14:00Z
    Missing System x Flash Memory Write Protection Lock Bit
    cvelistv5