Medium severity · published Mar 9, 2021
CVE-2021-3417
An internal product security audit of LXCO, prior to version 1.2.2, discovered that credentials for Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA), if added as a Resource Manager, are…
4.9
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An internal product security audit of LXCO, prior to version 1.2.2, discovered that credentials for Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA), if added as a Resource Manager, are encoded then written to an internal LXCO log file each time a session is established with LXCA. Affected logs are captured in the First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) service log. The FFDC service log is only generated when requested by a privileged LXCO user and it is only accessible to the privileged LXCO user that requested the file.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
High
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
XO
Xclarity Orchestrator · Lenovo
before 1.2.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3417
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3417
Vendor Advisory
https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-49884
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