Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in some Huawei Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20210714-01-privilege
- Initial Release Date: 2021-07-14
- Last Release Date: 2021-07-14
There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to improper privilege management, a local attacker with common privilege may access some specific files in the affected products. Successful exploit will cause privilege escalation. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-05256)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-22396.
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-20210714-01-privilege-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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eCNS280_TD |
V100R005C00 |
V100R005C10SPC600 |
|
V100R005C10 |
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eSE620X vESS |
V100R001C10SPC200 |
V200R001C00SPC100 |
|
V100R001C20SPC200 |
Successful exploit will cause privilege escalation.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker gains the local access of the affected products.
Vulnerability details:
Due to improper privilege management, a local attacker with common privilege may access some specific files in the affected products. Successful exploit will cause privilege escalation.
Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2021-07-14 V1.0 INITIAL
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