CVE-2016-8227 (GCVE-0-2016-8227)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-26 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:13
VLAI
Summary
Privilege escalation vulnerability in Lenovo Transition application used in Lenovo Yoga, Flex and Miix systems running Windows allows local users to execute code with elevated privileges.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Privilege escalation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Date Public
2016-12-29 00:00
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