Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-9069 - Race Condition vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.0 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
SINGLE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
COMPLETE

Summary

In some Lenovo IdeaPad consumer notebook models, a race condition in the BIOS flash device locking mechanism is not adequately protected against, potentially allowing an attacker with administrator access to alter the contents of BIOS.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Hp
57
OS
Lenovo
8
Hardware
Hp
68

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Leveraging Race Conditions
    This attack targets a race condition occurring when multiple processes access and manipulate the same resource concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place. The attacker can leverage a race condition by "running the race", modifying the resource and modifying the normal execution flow. For instance a race condition can occur while accessing a file, the attacker can trick the system by replacing the original file with his version and cause the system to read the malicious file.
  • Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
    This attack targets a race condition occurring between the time of check (state) for a resource and the time of use of a resource. The typical example is the file access. The attacker can leverage a file access race condition by "running the race", meaning that he would modify the resource between the first time the target program accesses the file and the time the target program uses the file. During that period of time, the attacker could do something such as replace the file and cause an escalation of privilege.