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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-7949

The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have a privilege escalation vulnerability.

HIGH 8.8EPSS 0.82%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.82%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have a privilege escalation vulnerability. A remote attacker may send some specially crafted login messages to the affected products. Due to improper authentication design, successful exploit enables low privileged users to get or modify passwords of highly privileged users.

CVSS 3.0
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
0.82% probability · 55th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-287
Affected
huawei/1288h v5 firmware · huawei/2288h v5 firmware · huawei/2488 v5 firmware · huawei/ch121 v3 firmware · huawei/ch121l v3 firmware · huawei/ch121l v5 firmware · huawei/ch121 v5 firmware · huawei/ch140 v3 firmware · huawei/ch140l v3 firmware · huawei/ch220 v3 firmware · huawei/ch222 v3 firmware · huawei/ch242 v3 firmware · huawei/ch242 v5 firmware · huawei/rh1288 v3 firmware · huawei/rh2288 v3 firmware · huawei/xh310 v3 firmware · huawei/xh321 v3 firmware · huawei/xh321 v5 firmware · huawei/rh2288h v3 firmware · huawei/xh620 v3 firmware
Source
psirt@huawei.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.