CVE 2025 1729 Privilege Escalation Using TPQMAssistant.exe

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While digging into the internals of my new Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen7, I came across an unexpected discovery that quickly escalated from curiosity to a viable privilege escalation vulnerability. Every day at exactly 9:30AM, a scheduled task named: Lenovo\TrackPointQuickMenu\Schedule\ActivationDailyScheduleTask automatically launches the binary: **C:\ProgramData\Lenovo\TPQM\Assistant\TPQMA…