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Medium severity4.4NVD Advisory· Published Nov 30, 2016· Updated May 6, 2026

CVE-2016-8222

CVE-2016-8222

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in a signed kernel driver for the BIOS of some ThinkPad systems that can allow an attacker with Windows administrator-level privileges to call System Management Mode (SMM) services. This could lead to a denial of service attack or allow certain BIOS variables or settings to be altered (such as boot sequence). The setting or changing of BIOS passwords is not affected by this vulnerability.

Affected products

75

Patches

0

No patches discovered yet.

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