Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei Product
- SA No:huawei-sa-20211103-01-privilege
- Initial Release Date: 2021-11-03
- Last Release Date: 2022-02-23
There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to lack of privilege restrictions, an authenticated local attacker can perform specific operation to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2021-78991)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-39976.
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-20211103-01-privilege-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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CloudEngine 12800 |
V200R005C10SPC800 |
V200R005C10SPH037 |
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V200R019C00SPC800 |
V200R019C10SPC800 + V200R019C10SPH011 |
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V200R019C10SPC800 |
CloudEngine 12800&16800 V200R019SPH011 |
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V200R019C10SPC900 |
CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R019SPH011 |
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CloudEngine 5800 |
V200R005C10SPC800 |
V200R005SPH037 |
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V200R019C00SPC800 |
V200R019C10SPC800 + V200R019C10SPH011 |
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V200R019C10SPC800 |
CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R019SPH011 |
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V200R020C00SPC600 |
V200R020SPH008 |
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CloudEngine 6800 |
V200R005C10SPC800 |
V200R005SPH037 |
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V200R005C20SPC800 |
V200R019C10SPC800 + V200R019C10SPH011 |
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V200R019C00SPC800 |
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V200R019C10SPC800 |
CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R019SPH011 |
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V200R019C10SPC900 |
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V200R020C00SPC600 |
CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R020SPH008 |
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V300R020C00SPC200 |
V300R020C10SPC200 |
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CloudEngine 7800 |
V200R005C10SPC800 |
V200R005SPH037 |
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V200R019C00SPC800 |
V200R019C10SPC800 + V200R019SPH011 |
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V200R019C10SPC800 |
CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R019SPH011 |
Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.7 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
Attackers can login the system with common privilege.
Vulnerability details:
There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to lack of privilege restrictions, an authenticated local attacker can perform specific operation to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege.
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.
2022-02-23 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;
2022-01-05 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;
2021-11-03 V1.0 INITIAL
None
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