CVSS 3.0
4.9 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2018-9085
Medium (4.9). EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A write protection lock bit was left unset after boot on an older generation of Lenovo and IBM System x servers, potentially allowing an attacker with administrator access to modify the subset of flash memory containing Intel Server Platform Services (SPS) and the system Flash Descriptors.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-276
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- ibm:bladecenter_hs23_firmware
- ibm:bladecenter_hs23e_firmware
- ibm:flex_system_x220_m4_firmware
- ibm:flex_system_x222_m4_firmware
- ibm:flex_system_x240_m4_firmware
- ibm:flex_system_x280_x6_firmware
- ibm:flex_system_x440_m4_firmware
- ibm:flex_system_x480_x6_firmware
- ibm:flex_system_x880_x6_firmware
- ibm:idataplex_dx360_m4_firmware
- ibm:idataplex_dx360_m4_water_cooled_firmware
- ibm:system_x3100_m4_firmware
- ibm:system_x3100_m5_firmware
- ibm:system_x3250_m4_firmware
- ibm:system_x3250_m5_firmware
- ibm:system_x3300_m4_firmware
- ibm:system_x3500_m4_firmware
- ibm:system_x3530_m4_firmware
- ibm:system_x3550_m4_firmware
- ibm:system_x3630_m4_firmware
- ibm:system_x3650_m4_bd_firmware
- ibm:system_x3650_m4_firmware
- ibm:system_x3650_m4_hd_firmware
- ibm:system_x3750_m4_firmware
- ibm:system_x3850_x6_firmware
- ibm:system_x3950_x6_firmware
- lenovo:flex_system_x240_m4_firmware
- lenovo:flex_system_x440_m4_firmware
- lenovo:system_x3750_m4_firmware