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Security Advisory - Improper Permission Assignment Vulnerability in Some USB Dongle Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20210602-01-permission
  • Initial Release Date: 2021.06.02
  • Last Release Date: 2021.06.22

Huawei LTE USB Dongle products have an improper permission assignment vulnerability. An attacker can locally access and log in to a MAC OS to induce a user to install a specially crafted application. After successfully exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can perform unauthenticated operations. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2021-60283)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-22382.

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-20210602-01-permission-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

E3372

Earlier than 22.333.03.00.00 versions

Hilink products tool[1]

E8372
Earlier than 21.333.03.00.00 versions
MobileWiFi Tools for MAC OS[2]

[1] You are advised to download and install the Hilink products tool from https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/routers/e3372/ to solve this problem.

[2] You are advised to download and install the MobileWiFi Tools for MAC OS from https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/routers/e8372/ to solve this problem.


Successfully exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can perform unauthenticated operations.


The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 3.8 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Temporal Score: 3.6 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

An attacker can locally access and log in to a MAC OS to induce a user to install a specially crafted application.

Vulnerability details:

An attacker can locally access and log in to a MAC OS to induce a user to install a specially crafted application. After successfully exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can perform unauthenticated operations.


Consumers are advised to download and install the Hilink products tool from https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/routers/e3372/  or MobileWiFi Tools for MAC OS from https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/routers/e8372/ to solve this problem.

This vulnerability was discovered  by Martin Rakhmanov of Trustwave.

2021-06-22 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the information in "Summary" and "Software Versions and Fixes";

2021-06-08 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the information in "Source";

2021-06-02 V1.0 INITIAL



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