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CVE-2021-3417

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-319

Description

An internal product security audit of LXCO, prior to version 1.2.2, discovered that credentials for Lenovo XClarity Administrator (LXCA), if added as a Resource Manager, are encoded then written to an internal LXCO log file each time a session is established with LXCA. Affected logs are captured in the First Failure Data Capture (FFDC) service log. The FFDC service log is only generated when requested by a privileged LXCO user and it is only accessible to the privileged LXCO user that requested the file.

Affected products

• Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator: before 1.2.2 — fixed in 1.2.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator 1.2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-49884
• https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-49884

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