CVE-2021-39976: Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei Product

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

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 5800

V200R020C00SPC600

V200R020SPH008

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

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.

This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.

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