CVE-2024-8278
A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in XCC that could allow a valid, authenticated XCC user with elevated privileges to perform command injection via specially crafted IPMI commands.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.10%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A privilege escalation vulnerability was discovered in XCC that could allow a valid, authenticated XCC user with elevated privileges to perform command injection via specially crafted IPMI commands.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.10% probability · 65th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-78
- Source
- psirt@lenovo.com
EPSS 1.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.