CVE-2018-7949

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-287

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.

Affected products

Huawei 1288H V5 Firmware: 100r005c00
Huawei 2288H V5 Firmware: 100r005c00
Huawei 2488 V5 Firmware: 100r005c00
Huawei Ch121 V3 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Ch121 V5 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Ch121L V3 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Ch121L V5 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Ch140 V3 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Ch140L V3 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Ch220 V3 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Ch222 V3 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Ch242 V3 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Ch242 V5 Firmware: 100r001c00
Huawei Rh1288 V3 Firmware: 100r003c00
Huawei Rh2288 V3 Firmware: 100r003c00
Huawei Rh2288H V3 Firmware: 100r003c00
Huawei Xh310 V3 Firmware: 100r003c00
Huawei Xh321 V3 Firmware: 100r003c00
Huawei Xh321 V5 Firmware: 100r005c00
Huawei Xh620 V3 Firmware: 100r003c00

References

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180530-03-server-en
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180530-03-server-en

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