Thinkpads were absolutely impacted by some of them
Lenovo's SHAREit software was preloaded on ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebooks. That was one of the hardcoded password issues I mentioned (along with other problems)
My ThinkPad T61p suffered a different problem: It was bricked 1 month out of warranty due to the GPU, which was recalled by Nvidia but Lenovo refused to honor the recall. Instead they wanted to sell me an $800 replacement board with the same faulty GPU. There was a long thread on their support forums with hundreds of people complaining about the same thing. It has since disappeared. I've never given Lenovo another dollar.
autoexec|3 years ago
Lenovo's SHAREit software was preloaded on ThinkPad and IdeaPad notebooks. That was one of the hardcoded password issues I mentioned (along with other problems)
for more info see:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2016-1489
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2016-1492
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2016-1491
The fingerprint scanner issue also impacted thinkpads, thinkstation and thinkcentre devices:
https://www.theregister.com/2018/01/26/lenovo_thinkpad_finge...
mcbits|3 years ago