CVE-2021-3718 (GCVE-0-2021-3718)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-11-12 22:05
Modified
2024-08-03 17:01
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-232 - Improper Handling of Undefined Values
Summary
A denial of service vulnerability was reported in some ThinkPad models that could cause a system to crash when the Enhanced Biometrics setting is enabled in BIOS.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Lenovo ThinkPad BIOS Version: various
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