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New Lenovo UEFI Firmware Vulnerabilities Affect Millions of Laptops

April 19, 2022

Three high-impact Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) security vulnerabilities have been discovered impacting various Lenovo consumer laptop models, enabling malicious actors to deploy and execute firmware implants on the affected devices.

Tracked as CVE-2021-3970, CVE-2021-3971, and CVE-2021-3972, the latter two “affect firmware drivers originally meant to be used only during the manufacturing process of Lenovo consumer notebooks,” ESET researcher Martin Smolár said in a report published today.

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