Lenovo “Superfish” Spyware Info

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-2015-010
Potential Impact: Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Severity: High

Summary:

This advisory only applies to Lenovo Notebook products.

(ThinkPad, ThinkCentre, Lenovo Desktop, ThinkStation, ThinkServer and System x products are not impacted.)

Superfish was previously included on some consumer notebook products shipped between September 2014 and February 2015 to assist customers with discovering products similar to what they are viewing. However, user feedback was not positive, and we responded quickly and decisively:

Superfish has completely disabled server side interactions (since January) on all Lenovo products so that the software product is no longer active, effectively disabling Superfish for all products in the market.
Lenovo stopped preloading the software in February.
We will not preload this software in the future.

Vulnerabilities have been identified with the software, which include installation of a self-signed root certificate in the local trusted CA store. The application can be uninstalled; however, the current uninstaller does not remove the Superfish root certificate.

Description:

Superfish intercept HTTP(S) traffic using a self-signed root certificate. This is stored in the local certificate store and provides a security concern.

Mitigation Strategy for Customers (what you should do to protect yourself):

Lenovo has reached out to Superfish to disable all server activity associated with their product. To completely remove this software, please follow the instructions on this link:

Superfish Removal Instructions

Affected Products

The following Lenovo notebooks may be affected:

E-Series:

E10-30

Flex-Series:

Flex2 14, Flex2 15

Flex2 14D, Flex2 15D

Flex2 14 (BTM), Flex2 15 (BTM)

Flex 10

G-Series:

G410

G510

G40-70, G40-30, G40-45

G50-70, G50-30, G50-45

M-Series:

Miix2 – 8

Miix2 – 10

Miix2 – 11

S-Series:

S310

S410

S415; S415 Touch

S20-30, S20-30 Touch

S40-70

U-Series:

U330P

U430P

U330Touch

U430Touch

U540Touch

Y-Series:

Y430P

Y40-70

Y50-70

Yoga-Series:

Yoga2-11BTM

Yoga2-11HSW

Yoga2-13

Yoga2Pro-13

Z-Series:

Z40-70

Z40-75

Z50-70

Z50-75

Acknowledgements:

None

Other information and references:

TBD