What is CVE-2025-8061?
A potential insufficient access control vulnerability was reported in the Lenovo Dispatcher 3.0 and Dispatcher 3.1 drivers used by some Lenovo consumer notebooks that could allow an authenticated local user to execute code with elevated privileges. The Lenovo Dispatcher 3.2 driver is not affected. This vulnerability does not affect systems when the Windows feature Core Isolation Memory Integrity is enabled. Lenovo systems preloaded with Windows 11 have this feature enabled by default.
The record classifies CVE-2025-8061 under weakness class CWE-782. Its CVSS v3 base vector states that the flaw requires local access to the host, needs low-privilege credentials, needs no user interaction, and has high impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability. 2 affected-product entries are recorded, across 1 vendor, listed below. The identifier was first published 412 days ago.
Severity and exploitation probability
- CVSS v3.1 base score
- 7 — HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v4.0 base score
- 7.3
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - EPSS (FIRST)
- 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 31.4% of all scored CVEs
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- Threadlinqs priority
- 6.8/10 — a Threadlinqs composite of the CVSS base score, the EPSS percentile and public exploit availability
- Published
- 2025-09-11, last modified 2025-09-22
Is CVE-2025-8061 being exploited?
Weaponised exploit code for CVE-2025-8061 is publicly available. 6 public proof-of-concept repositories are tracked for this identifier. It currently carries a trending score of 21 in the Threadlinqs vulnerability feed.
- symeonp/Lenovo-CVE-2025-8061 (github)
- spawn451/CVE-2025-8061-Exploit (github)
- segura2010/lenovo-dispatcher-poc (github)
- uLl0a/MSRMapper (github)
- vxqs/Lenovo-CVE-2025-8061 (github)
- trickest/cve (trickest)
Affected products and versions
- Lenovo: Dispatcher 3.0 Driver, Dispatcher 3.1 Driver
How to fix CVE-2025-8061
No vendor patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2025-8061 in the tracked sources. Follow the references below for a fix, and treat the products listed above as exposed until the vendor states otherwise.
Threat activity tracking CVE-2025-8061
1 tracked threat in the Threadlinqs corpus references CVE-2025-8061, either in the campaign’s CVE list or as an indicator on the campaign record.
Sources
Enriched from CVE.org, FIRST EPSS, public proof-of-concept repositories. Last verified by Threadlinqs on .