CVE-2026-0940
A potential improper initialization vulnerability was reported in the BIOS of some ThinkPads that could allow a local privileged user to modify data and execute arbitrary code.
Scoring
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS base score
- 8.4
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.13%
- CWE
- CWE-665
- Published
- 2026-03-11
- Last modified
- 2026-03-13
Affected products
- Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 5 BIOS
- Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 5 BIOS
- Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen 2 BIOS
- Lenovo ThinkPad Z16 Gen 2 BIOS
- Lenovo ThinkPad P16v Gen 1 BIOS
- Lenovo ThinkPad P15v Gen 3 BIOS
- Lenovo ThinkPad Z13 Gen 1 BIOS
- Lenovo ThinkPad Z16 Gen 1 BIOS
Weakness type
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