Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-3972

Medium

Published: 22 April 2022

Published
22 April 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0321 87.3th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-3972 is a medium-severity Active Debug Code (CWE-489) vulnerability in Lenovo Ideapad 3-14Ada05 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 12.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A potential vulnerability by a driver used during manufacturing process on some consumer Lenovo Notebook devices' BIOS that was mistakenly not deactivated may allow an attacker with elevated privileges to modify secure boot setting by modifying an NVRAM variable.

CWE(s)
CWE-489NVD-CWE-Other

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

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ideapad 3-14ada05 firmware
≤ e8cn33ww
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ideapad 3-14ada6 firmware
≤ hbcn21ww
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ideapad 3-14alc6 firmware
≤ glcn43ww
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ideapad 3-14are05 firmware
≤ dzcn42ww
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ideapad 3-15ada6 firmware
≤ hbcn21ww
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ideapad 3-15alc6 firmware
≤ glcn43ww
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ideapad 3-15are05 firmware
≤ dzcn42ww
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ideapad 3-15igl05 firmware
≤ dvcn23ww
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ideapad 3-17ada05 firmware
≤ e8cn33ww
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ideapad 3-17ada6 firmware
≤ hbcn21ww
+95 more product configuration(s) — see NVD for full list

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-25 Thin Nodes
addresses: CWE-489

Minimal functionality precludes inclusion of active debug code or diagnostic interfaces.

References