CVE-2008-3249: Lenovo Thinkvantage System Update

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The client in Lenovo System Update before 3.14 does not properly validate the certificate when establishing an SSL connection, which allows remote attackers to install arbitrary packages via an SSL certificate whose X.509 headers match a public certificate used by IBM.

Affected products

• Lenovo Thinkvantage System Update: up to and including 3.13.0005; version 3.13 only

Published 2008-07-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.