Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei Product
- SA No:huawei-sa-20201230-01-pe
- Initial Release Date: Dec 30, 2020
- Last Release Date: Dec 30, 2020
There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Some files in a directory of a module are located improperly. It does not apply the directory limitation. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by crafting malicious file to launch privilege escalation. This can compromise normal service of affected products. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-00007)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9209.
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-20201230-01-pe-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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SMC2.0 |
V600R006C00SPC700 |
V600R019C10SPC910 |
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V600R006C00SPC800 |
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V600R006C10SPC500 |
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V600R006C10SPC600 |
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V600R006C10SPC601 |
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V600R006C10SPC602 |
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V600R006C10SPC700 |
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V600R006C10SPC800 |
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V600R006C10SPCa00 |
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V600R006C10SPCb00 |
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V600R006C10SPCc00 |
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V600R006C10SPCd00 |
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V600R006C10SPCe00 |
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V600R019C00 |
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V600R019C10 |
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by crafting malicious file to launch privilege escalation. This can compromise normal service of affected products.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.4 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 5.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
Attackers have access to the affected module.
Vulnerability details:
Some files in a directory of a module are located improperly. It does not apply the directory limitation. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by crafting malicious file to launch privilege escalation. This can compromise normal service of affected products.
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.
2020-12-30 V1.0 INITIAL
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