CVE-2025-13152
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedA potential DLL hijacking vulnerability was reported in Lenovo One Client during an internal security assessment that could allow a local authenticated user to execute code with elevated privileges.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · moderate confidenceLenovo One Client is vulnerable to DLL hijacking, where the application loads Dynamic Link Libraries from locations controllable by an untrusted user. A local authenticated attacker can place a malicious DLL in the search path, which the application will load and execute with elevated privileges, achieving local privilege escalation.
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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Verify Lenovo One Client installationCheck for Lenovo One Client in installed programs (Windows: Registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall orPrograms and Features); look for executable in Program Files or AppData foldersAffected if Lenovo One Client is present on the system
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Identify installed versionRight-click the Lenovo One Client executable (commonly in C:\Program Files\Lenovo\One Client or similar), select Properties, and check the File Version field; alternatively, use PowerShell: Get-Item 'C:\Program Files\Lenovo\One Client\*.exe' | Select-Object Name, VersionInfoAffected if Version cannot be determined or matches the affected release line
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Determine DLL search orderUse Process Monitor or similar tool to capture DLL load events when Lenovo One Client starts; filter by Process Name containing 'OneClient' and look for Load Image events showing DLL pathsAffected if Application loads DLLs from user-writable directories in the search path
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Check directory permissions on DLL load locationsRight-click each directory identified in the DLL search path (such as application directory, System32, Windows, current working directory), select Properties > Security, and verify if Users or Authenticated Users have Write or Modify permissionsAffected if Low-privilege authenticated users can write to any directory in the DLL search path
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Identify replaceable DLLsReview the DLLs loaded by Lenovo One Client from the Process Monitor trace; check if any non-system DLLs (especially those in application directory or user-writable paths) can be replaced by an untrusted userAffected if Any DLL loaded from a user-writable location exists in the application's search path
A user is affected if Lenovo One Client is installed and any directory in its DLL search path is writable by authenticated low-privilege users, allowing DLL hijacking for privilege escalation.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataImplement secure DLL loading by specifying full absolute paths for all DLL dependencies, enabling SafeDllSearchMode, and validating DLL signatures before loading. Conduct a comprehensive audit of all DLL load operations in the application.
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