VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-9085

CVSS score4.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.66%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2018-11-16
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions

Primary references