Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei PCManager Product
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200429-01-pcmanager
- Initial Release Date: Apr 29, 2020
- Last Release Date: Apr 29, 2020
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1817.
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-20200429-01-pcmanager-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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PCManager |
Versions earlier than 10.0.1.36 |
10.0.1.36 |
Successful exploit may cause privilege escalation.
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)
The attacker could gain access the affected device.
Vulnerability details:
Due to improper permission management of specific files, local attackers with low permissions can inject commands to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit may cause privilege escalation.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by Eran Shimony of CyberArk Labs. Huawei would like to thank Eran Shimony for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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