Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei ME906S Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170927-01-me906s
- Initial Release Date: Sep 27, 2017
- Last Release Date: Sep 27, 2017
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8185.
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-20170927-01-me906s-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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ME906s-158 |
Earlier than ME906S_Installer_13.1805.10.3 versions |
Upgrade to ME906S_Installer_13.1805.10.3 |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 7.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker modify the configuration information.
Vulnerability details:
There has a privilege elevation vulnerability in ME906S Products. Due to lack of privilege restrictions on some of the business functions of the device. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to modify the configuration information containing malicious files and trick users into executing the files, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.
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 reported to Huawei PSIRT by Lenovo PSIRT. Huawei would like to thank Lenovo PSIRT for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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