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CVE-2016-8769

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Huawei UTPS earlier than UTPS-V200R003B015D16SPC00C983 has an unquoted service path vulnerability which can lead to the truncation of UTPS service query paths. An attacker may put an executable file in the search path of the affected service and obtain elevated privileges after the executable file is executed.

Affected products

• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei UTPS: through v200r003b015d15sp00c983

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161116-01-utps-en
• http://www.security-geek.in/2017/02/07/0day-discovery-system-level-access-by-privilege-escalation-of-huawei-manufactured-airtel-photon-dongles/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94403
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40807/
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161116-01-utps-en
• http://www.security-geek.in/2017/02/07/0day-discovery-system-level-access-by-privilege-escalation-of-huawei-manufactured-airtel-photon-dongles/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94403
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40807/

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