firmware

No official announcement yet, but researchers confirm updated firmware contains a fix

Updated BIOS code and signature verification process for files downloaded from remote servers

Malicious firmware being used to build chain of devices to snoop on European government entities, says Check Point

MSI devices equipped with 11th gen Tiger Lake, 12th gen Adler Lake and 13th gen Raptor Lake CPUs could be affected, says researcher

The vulnerabilities were introduced when Lenovo inadvertently included an early development driver in the commercial versions of their software

The high-severity bugs affect HP Elite 2-in-1 PCs, HP EliteBook, HP ProBook laptops, some workstations, point-of-sale systems and desktop computers

Most serious could allow a privileged user to enable an escalation of privilege via local access

Millions of enterprise devices could be impacted

A malicious actor could exploit these flaws to escalate privilege on a vulnerable machine