CVE-2018-7949
The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have a privilege escalation vulnerability. A remote attacker…
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.82% · top 43% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
- privilege escalation
- CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-287 and its CVEs
Affected products
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · 1288H V5; 2288H V5; 2488 V5 ; CH121 V3; CH121L V3; CH121L V5 ; CH121 V5 ; CH140 V3; CH140L V3; CH220 V3; CH222 V3; CH242 V3; CH242 V5 ; RH1288 V3; RH2288 V3; RH2288H V3; XH310 V3; XH321 V3; XH321 V5; XH620 V3
- affected 1288H V5 V100R005C00
- affected 2288H V5 V100R005C00
- affected 2488 V5 V100R005C00
- affected CH121 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH121L V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH121L V5 V100R001C00
- affected CH121 V5 V100R001C00
- affected CH140 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH140L V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH220 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH222 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH242 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH242 V5 V100R001C00
- affected RH1288 V3 V100R003C00
- affected RH2288 V3 V100R003C00
- affected RH2288H V3 V100R003C00
- affected XH310 V3 V100R003C00
- affected XH321 V3 V100R003C00
- affected XH321 V5 V100R005C00
- affected XH620 V3 V100R003C00
References (1)
- http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180530-03-server-en (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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