Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-156781

Potential Impact: Privilege Escalation

Severity: High

Scope of Impact: Lenovo-specific

CVE Identifier: CVE-2024-38508, CVE-2024-38509, CVE-2024-38510, CVE-2024-38511, CVE-2024-38512

Summary Description:

An internal product security audit of Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) discovered the below vulnerabilities:

CVE-2024-38508: A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in the web interface or SSH captive command shell interface of XCC that could allow an authenticated XCC user with elevated privileges to perform command injection via a specially crafted request.

CVE-2024-38509: A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in XCC that could allow an authenticated XCC user with elevated privileges to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted IPMI command.

CVE-2024-38510:  A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in the SSH captive command shell interface that could allow an authenticated XCC user with elevated privileges to perform command injection via specially crafted file uploads.

CVE-2024-38511:  A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in an upload processing functionality of XCC that could allow an authenticated XCC user with elevated privileges to perform command injection via specially crafted file uploads.

CVE-2024-38512:  A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in XCC that could allow an authenticated XCC user with elevated privileges to perform command injection via specially crafted IPMI commands.

Mitigation Strategy for Customers (what you should do to protect yourself):

Update to the Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC) version (or higher) as recommended in the Product Impact section below.

Product Impact:

To download the version specified for your product below, follow these steps:

Navigate to the Drivers & Software support site for your product:

• Lenovo Products (sold worldwide, except in China): https://support.lenovo.com/
• Lenovo Products (sold in China): https://newsupport.lenovo.com.cn/
• IBM-branded System x Legacy Products: https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

1. Search for your product by name or machine type.
2. Click Drivers & Software on the left menu panel.
3. Click on Manual Update to browse by Component type.
4. Compare the minimum fix version for your product from the applicable product table below with the latest version posted on the support site.

Lenovo also offers tools to assist with update management as an alternative to the manual steps described above. Refer to the following for additional help:

PC Products and Software: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/ht504759

Server and Enterprise Software: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/lnvo-lxcaupd and https://datacentersupport.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/lnvo-center

Click below links to view affected products:

ThinkAgile

ThinkEdge

ThinkStation

ThinkSystem

Revision History:

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Product Impact:

ThinkAgile

ThinkEdge

ThinkStation

ThinkSystem