🛡️ CVE-2023-2290 — thinkpad-e14-firmware

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-2290 is classified as CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write. Data is written past the end or before the start of a buffer, corrupting whatever is stored there.

Affected software

CVE-2023-2290 is recorded against 85 packages.

• thinkpad-e14-firmware
• thinkpad-e14-gen-2-firmware
• thinkpad-e14-gen-4-firmware
• thinkpad-e15-firmware
• thinkpad-e15-gen-2-firmware
• thinkpad-e15-gen-4-firmware
• thinkpad-e490-firmware
• thinkpad-e490s-firmware
• thinkpad-e590-firmware
• thinkpad-l13-gen-3-firmware
• thinkpad-l13-yoga-gen-3-firmware
• thinkpad-l14-firmware
• thinkpad-l15-firmware
• thinkpad-l15-gen-2-firmware
• thinkpad-l15-gen-3-firmware
• thinkpad-l490-firmware
• thinkpad-l590-firmware
• thinkpad-p1-gen-2-firmware
• thinkpad-p1-gen-3-firmware
• thinkpad-p1-gen-4-firmware
• thinkpad-p1-gen-5-firmware
• thinkpad-p14s-gen-1-firmware
• thinkpad-p14s-gen-2-firmware
• thinkpad-p14s-gen-3-firmware

Timeline and source

Published on 26 June 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

support.lenovo.com
support.lenovo.com

Other advisories for this package

thinkpad-e14-firmware has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2022-48189 (6.7 Medium, published 30 Oct 2023)
• CVE-2022-40134 (4.4 Medium, published 30 Jan 2023)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write) in other software:

• CVE-2019-5063 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-12605 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-29208 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-23561 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2019-9423 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2018-5268 (published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-12606 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-12603 (8.0 High, published 2 Jul 2026)

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