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Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei Product

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20211103-01-privilege
  • Initial Release Date: Nov 03, 2021
  • Last Release Date: Feb 23, 2022

There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to lack of privilege restrictions, an authenticated local attacker can perform specific operation to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2021-78991)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-39976.

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-20211103-01-privilege-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

CloudEngine 12800

V200R005C10SPC800

V200R005C10SPH037

V200R019C00SPC800

V200R019C10SPC800 + V200R019C10SPH011

V200R019C10SPC800

CloudEngine 12800&16800 V200R019SPH011

V200R019C10SPC900

CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R019SPH011

CloudEngine 5800

V200R005C10SPC800

V200R005SPH037

V200R019C00SPC800

V200R019C10SPC800 + V200R019C10SPH011

V200R019C10SPC800

CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R019SPH011

V200R020C00SPC600

V200R020SPH008

CloudEngine 6800

V200R005C10SPC800

V200R005SPH037

V200R005C20SPC800

V200R019C10SPC800 + V200R019C10SPH011

V200R019C00SPC800

V200R019C10SPC800

CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R019SPH011

V200R019C10SPC900

V200R020C00SPC600

CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R020SPH008

V300R020C00SPC200

V300R020C10SPC200

CloudEngine 7800

V200R005C10SPC800

V200R005SPH037

V200R019C00SPC800

V200R019C10SPC800 + V200R019SPH011

V200R019C10SPC800

CloudEngine 58&68&78&88&98 V200R019SPH011



Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege.

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

Base Score: 6.7 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 6.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

Attackers can login the system with common privilege.

Vulnerability details:

There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to lack of privilege restrictions, an authenticated local attacker can perform specific operation to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege.

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 discovered by Huawei internal tester.


2022-02-23 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2022-01-05 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2021-11-03 V1.0 INITIAL


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