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Lenovo Accessories and Display Manager EUVDEUVD-2026-36047

| CVE-2026-9045 HIGH
Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306)
2026-06-10 lenovo GHSA-j94f-hq72-qm3h
8.5
CVSS 4.0 · Vendor: lenovo
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Obtain low-priv user session on Lenovo Windows host
  2. Delivery
    Enumerate Accessories and Display Manager IPC surface
  3. Exploit
    Invoke unauthenticated privileged function
  4. Execution
    Execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM
  5. Persist
    Dump credentials and establish persistence
  6. Impact
    Pivot laterally across domain

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A07:2025 - Authentication Failures
ASVS 5.0
V6 - Authentication Authentication required for critical functions
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Initial Access

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Attacker must already have a valid low-privileged authenticated session (PR:L) on a Windows endpoint where Lenovo Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise is installed and the vulnerable privileged component (service/IPC endpoint) is running; exploitation is local only (AV:L), so remote network exploitation is not possible without a prior foothold. No user interaction is required (UI:N) and attack complexity is low (AC:L), meaning no race window, environmental tuning, or victim action is needed once the attacker can execute code on the host. The vulnerability is limited to environments running the Enterprise edition of Accessories and Display Manager on Windows - consumer-grade Lenovo accessory software, non-Lenovo hardware, and endpoints without this specific package installed are not exposed.

Impact

The CVSS 4.0 vector AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N with VC:H/VI:H/VA:H confirms a local, low-complexity, no-user-interaction privilege escalation requiring only low-privilege authentication, yielding a base score of 8.5 - appropriate for a reliable Windows LPE. No EPSS score, KEV listing, or public POC has been published, and exploitation status is no public exploit identified at time of analysis, so this is not a fire-drill internet-facing emergency. However, the risk is meaningful in enterprise fleets that deploy this Lenovo software at scale: LPE bugs in vendor-shipped management utilities are routinely chained by malware and red teams for post-foothold elevation, and the vulnerability was found by Lenovo's own internal assessment (reducing the chance of an in-the-wild surprise but raising the chance of researcher follow-up POCs once the patch is reversed). Prioritize patching on managed Lenovo Windows endpoints, especially shared/multi-user systems and any host accessible to lower-trust users.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

A standard domain user who has already obtained interactive or RDP access to a Lenovo workstation - through phishing, stolen credentials, or insider access - runs a small utility that opens the unauthenticated IPC/service interface exposed by Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise and invokes the privileged function to execute attacker-supplied code in the SYSTEM context. With SYSTEM, the attacker dumps LSASS, harvests credentials, and pivots laterally. No public POC has been released, but CWE-306 LPE bugs in Windows OEM management agents are historically straightforward to reproduce once the IPC surface is reverse-engineered from the patched binary.

This Week Schedule remediation this week. Why: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9).
Patch available 0.0% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv3 – Jun 10, 2026

Local privilege escalation in Lenovo Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise on Windows allows an authenticated low-privileged user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges, per a Lenovo-disclosed internal finding (LEN-213623). The CVSS 4.0 base score of 8.5 reflects high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the vulnerable system, though no public exploit identified at time of analysis. The CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function) classification combined with the 'Authentication Bypass' tag suggests a privileged operation in the product is reachable without proper access checks.

Earlier versions of this analysis (2)
v2 Jun 10, 2026 - 15:29 cvss changed CVSS 8.5

Local privilege escalation in Lenovo Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise on Windows allows an authenticated low-privilege user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The flaw maps to CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function), suggesting a privileged component or interface exposed to standard users without proper access control. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and the issue was reported internally by Lenovo during a security assessment.

v1 Jun 10, 2026 - 15:18 CVSS 7.8

Local privilege escalation in Lenovo Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise (Windows) allows an authenticated user on the host to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The flaw is rooted in missing authentication (CWE-306) within the management software and was disclosed by Lenovo's own internal security assessment. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, but a vendor patch is available via Lenovo support.

RemediationAI

Apply the patched version of Lenovo Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise from Lenovo's download page at https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds568567, following the guidance in the security advisory at https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-213623 (Vendor-released patch: see DS568567 for the exact fix build). Push the update through your endpoint management platform (Intune, SCCM/MECM, Tanium, etc.) to all Lenovo Windows endpoints where the Enterprise variant is installed. If patching cannot be performed immediately, compensating controls include uninstalling the Accessories and Display Manager package on hosts where docks/peripherals aren't centrally managed (trade-off: users lose dock/monitor configuration UI and some firmware-update flows), restricting interactive logon on shared workstations to trusted users only via Group Policy User Rights Assignment (trade-off: operational impact on shared kiosks/lab machines), and monitoring for child processes of the Lenovo service running with elevated tokens that spawn cmd.exe/powershell.exe or write to system directories.

Affected VersionsENISA

Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise 0 <1.0.9

Affected Packages

euvd accessories_and_display_manager_for_enterprise fix: 1.0.9

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

Checking this CVE against your own stacks and servers is part of the Basic plan and up.

Technical ContextAI · show details

Lenovo Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise is a Windows-based management utility distributed by Lenovo for enterprise endpoints to configure docks, monitors, and peripheral accessories. The underlying CWE-306 (Missing Authentication for Critical Function) indicates that a critical operation exposed by the application - likely an IPC endpoint, named pipe, COM interface, or privileged service routine - does not validate that the caller is authorized to invoke it. Because the product typically runs with elevated rights to manipulate device settings and drivers, a standard user process can reach this unauthenticated critical function and coerce it into performing actions (file writes, process spawning, driver loading) in the SYSTEM or administrator context, yielding arbitrary code execution. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:lenovo:accessories_and_display_manager_for_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covers all versions, suggesting the affected version range is unbounded until the patched build identified in DS568567.

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Severity by source

Vendor (lenovo) PRIMARY 8.5 HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (lenovo) · only source for this CVE.

CVSS VectorVendor: lenovo

Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Attack Requirements
None
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Vulnerable system: Confidentiality
High
Vulnerable system: Integrity
High
Vulnerable system: Availability
High
Subsequent system: Confidentiality
None
Subsequent system: Integrity
None
Subsequent system: Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Analysis Updated
Jun 10, 2026 - 15:31 vuln.today
v3 - CVSS changed
Analysis Updated
Jun 10, 2026 - 15:29 vuln.today
v2 - CVSS changed
CVSS changed
Jun 10, 2026 - 15:22 NVD
7.8 (HIGH) 8.5 (HIGH)
CVE Published
Jun 10, 2026 - 14:09 nvd
HIGH 7.8

DescriptionCVE.org

During an internal security assessment, a potential vulnerability was discovered in Lenovo Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise for Windows that could allow a local authenticated user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Executive ViewAI

Why It Matters

Lenovo Accessories and Display Manager for Enterprise on Windows contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-9045, CVSS 8.5) that allows authenticated low-privilege users to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. With no public exploit identified at time of analysis, this remains a significant insider-threat vector affecting system confidentiality, integrity, and availability across Windows endpoints. Patching within one week is critical to prevent exploitation.

Business Impact: High
Compensating Controls

Apply vendor patch.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.0%
Top 98% exploitable
Data Quality
5 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity HIGH
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.0%
Patch available Yes
Active threat No
Deciding rule
HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Small
Automatable
No
Human Impact
High
Technical Impact
Total

Priority Score

42
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +42
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.

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