CVE-2026-16792 (GCVE-0-2026-16792)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-04 19:48
Modified
2026-08-05 14:48
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
7.0 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper certificate validation
Summary
An improper certificate validation vulnerability was reported in multiple Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator (LXCO) 2.2.0 microservices that could allow an adjacent network attacker to intercept sensitive communications by performing a machine-in-the-middle attack against HTTPS connections during TLS certificate validation under certain circumstances.
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Impacted products
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