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Security Advisory-Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the HMM Software of a Huawei Server Product

  • SA No:Huawei-SA-20141224-01-HMM
  • Initial Release Date: Dec 24, 2014
  • Last Release Date: Dec 24, 2014

The Hyper Module Management (HMM) software of some Huawei server products has a security vulnerability. The software has a design defect, enabling a non-super-domain user who accesses HMM through SNMPv3 to perform operations on a server as a super-domain user (vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2014-11116).
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2014-9695.

Product name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Tecal E9000 Chassis

V100R001C00SPC160 and earlier versions

V100R001C00SPC180





Note: To fix the vulnerability, upgrade only the MM910-MM-V256 software in Tecal E9000 Chassis V100R001C00SPC180.

A non-super-domain user who accesses HMM through SNMPv3 can perform operations on a server as a super-domain user.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).

Base Score: 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Temporal Score: 5.4 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1.Prerequisites:

Attackers can log in to the HMM software with the non-super-domain user account.

2.Attacking procedure:

Attackers log in to the HMM software through SNMPv3 and then perform operations on the server.

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/security/psirt/report-vulnerabilities/index.htm.


This vulnerability was found firstly by Huawei internal tester. Huawei PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability described in this advisory.

For security problems about Huawei products and solutions, please contactPSIRT@huawei.com.

For general problems about Huawei products and solutions, please directly contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the configuration or technical assistance.


2014-12-24 V1.0 INITIAL

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