# CVE-2022-3698: Denial of service in Diagnostics

> A local user with administrative access can trigger a system crash in Lenovo Diagnostics and HardwareScanPlugin, causing denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.4 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Oct 2023
- **Updated:** 17 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2pfh-4x3h-w3hm

## What is CVE-2022-3698?

CVE-2022-3698 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Lenovo Diagnostics, published on 24 Oct 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A denial of service vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo HardwareScanPlugin versions prior to 

1.3.1.2

 and 

Lenovo Diagnostics versions prior to 4.45

 that could allow a local user with administrative access to trigger a system crash.

Weakness: CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3698?

It affects 2 products.


Products: Lenovo Diagnostics, Lenovo Hardwarescan Plugin.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-3698?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-3698 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-3698 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-3698 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Lenovo Diagnostics

- [CVE-2022-3699](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3699/): Privilege escalation in Diagnostics (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2020-8338](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-8338/): Path traversal in Diagnostics (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2026-0827](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-0827/): Path traversal in Diagnostics (medium 6.9)
- [CVE-2022-0353](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-0353/): Denial of service in Diagnostics (medium 4.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-3698 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-3698 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Lenovo Diagnostics, published on 24 Oct 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-3698 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Lenovo Diagnostics. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3698/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3698/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3698
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3698
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-3698

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3698/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.