CVE-2018-7949
What it is
The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have a privilege escalation vulnerability. A remote attacker may send some specially crafted login messages to the affected products. Due to improper authentication design, successful exploit enables low privileged users to get or modify passwords of highly privileged users.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network with a low-privilege account. High risk of data exposure, data tampering, service disruption.
- Exploit odds
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.8% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 8.8 HIGH (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.8% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-287 · Improper authentication
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Huawei 1288h v5 Firmware 100r005c00
- Huawei 2288h v5 Firmware 100r005c00
- Huawei 2488 v5 Firmware 100r005c00
- Huawei ch121 v3 Firmware 100r001c00
- Huawei ch121l v3 Firmware 100r001c00
- Huawei ch121l v5 Firmware 100r001c00
- Huawei ch121 v5 Firmware 100r001c00
- Huawei ch140 v3 Firmware 100r001c00
Attack profile CVSS 3.0 · 8.8
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Raw vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Fix and advisories
- http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180530-03-server-en
- http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180530-03-server-en