Security Advisory - Improper Permission Assignment Vulnerability in Some USB Dongle Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20210602-01-permission
- Initial Release Date: 2021-06-02
- Last Release Date: 2021-06-22
Huawei LTE USB Dongle products have an improper permission assignment vulnerability. An attacker can locally access and log in to a MAC OS to induce a user to install a specially crafted application. After successfully exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can perform unauthenticated operations. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2021-60283)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-22382.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20210602-01-permission-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
|
E3372 |
Earlier than 22.333.03.00.00 versions |
Hilink products tool[1] |
| E8372 |
Earlier than 21.333.03.00.00 versions |
MobileWiFi Tools for MAC OS[2] |
[1] You are advised to download and install the Hilink products tool from https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/routers/e3372/ to solve this problem.
[2] You are advised to download and install the MobileWiFi Tools for MAC OS from https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/routers/e8372/ to solve this problem.
Successfully exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can perform unauthenticated operations.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 3.8 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Temporal Score: 3.6 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker can locally access and log in to a MAC OS to induce a user to install a specially crafted application.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker can locally access and log in to a MAC OS to induce a user to install a specially crafted application. After successfully exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can perform unauthenticated operations.
Consumers are advised to download and install the Hilink products tool from https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/routers/e3372/ or MobileWiFi Tools for MAC OS from https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/routers/e8372/ to solve this problem.
2021-06-22 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the information in "Summary" and "Software Versions and Fixes";
2021-06-08 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the information in "Source";
2021-06-02 V1.0 INITIAL
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