CVE-2019-6175 System Update Vulnerability

What is CVE-2019-6175?

CVE-2019-6175 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Lenovo System Update, published on 26 Sep 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A denial of service vulnerability was reported in Lenovo System Update versions prior to 5.07.0088 that could allow configuration files to be written to non-standard locations.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-6175?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Lenovo System Update.

How do I fix CVE-2019-6175?

No fix has been published for CVE-2019-6175 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2019-6175 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-6175 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Lenovo System Update

• CVE-2015-2233 Security feature bypass in n/a High 8.3
• CVE-2023-4632 Other in Lenovo System Update High 7.8
• CVE-2015-7333 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2015-7334 Privilege escalation in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2018-9063 Memory corruption in Lenovo System Update High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qw9h-4855-wwrh.