01 Record
CVE-2018-16098
In some Lenovo ThinkPads, an unquoted search path vulnerability was found in various versions of the Synaptics Pointing Device driver which could allow unauthorized code execution as a low privilege
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: lenovo
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
In some Lenovo ThinkPads, an unquoted search path vulnerability was found in various versions of the Synaptics Pointing Device driver which could allow unauthorized code execution as a low privilege
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 33.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-01-24 22:00Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-16 16:32Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-08-29
- Assigning CNA
- lenovo
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-428Unquoted Search Path or ElementBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7d7e6bea335fb27f253986b69f86b746479affc91096290ff48b6f2c524f6eba
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- support.lenovo.comhttps://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/LEN-24573