CVE-2022-3701: Lenovo Hardware Scan Addin

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege elevation vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo Vantage SystemUpdate plugin version 2.0.0.212 and earlier that could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

Affected products

• Lenovo Hardware Scan Addin: before 2.4.1.1 (fixed in 2.4.1.1)
• Lenovo Hardware Scan Plugin: before 1.3.1.2 (fixed in 1.3.1.2)
• Lenovo System Update Plugin: before 2.0.0.213 (fixed in 2.0.0.213)

Published 2023-10-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.