Elevated registry-key deletion via unvalidated input
Published Mar 11, 2026 · Updated Mar 11, 2026
Input validation in Lenovo Vantage and Lenovo Baiying before 1.0.8.15 allows local users to delete arbitrary registry keys with elevated privileges. DeviceSettingsSystemAddin fails to constrain a registry-key input before performing the selected deletion with elevated privileges. Exploitation requires local authenticated access and can remove protected configuration that the user otherwise lacks permission to delete.
Summary
What happened
Input validation in Lenovo Vantage and Lenovo Baiying before 1.0.8.15 allows local users to delete arbitrary registry keys with elevated privileges. DeviceSettingsSystemAddin fails to constrain a registry-key input before performing the selected deletion with elevated privileges. Exploitation requires local authenticated access and can remove protected configuration that the user otherwise lacks permission to delete.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-1716
- Published
- Mar 11, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 11, 2026
- Vendor
- Lenovo
- Product
- Lenovo Vantage
- Classifications
- CWE-88, T1112
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 11, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 11, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.0.8.15
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