During an internal security assessment, a potential vulnerability was discovered in Lenovo Diagnostics and the HardwareScanAddin used in Lenovo Vantage that, during installation or when using hardware scan, could allow a local authenticated user to perform an arbitrary file write with elevated privileges.
Fix
Public exploits 1
- ZeroMemoryEx/CVE-2026-0827 PoC on GitHub
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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-210693 Vendor Advisory
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.9 · lenovoNVD modified 2026-10-26 21:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 2
cpe:2.3:a:lenovo:diagnostics:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:lenovo:hardware_scan:*:*:*:*:*:lenovo_vantage:*:*
References 1
- https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-210693 Vendor Advisory