CVE-2021-22396
There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to improper privilege management, a local attacker with common…
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Description
There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to improper privilege management, a local attacker with common privilege may access some specific files in the affected products. Successful exploit will cause privilege escalation.Affected product versions include:eCNS280_TD V100R005C00,V100R005C10;eSE620X vESS V100R001C10SPC200,V100R001C20SPC200.
Timeline
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By huawei
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.15% · top 96% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- Privilege Escalation
- CWE-269 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-269 and its CVEs
Affected products
eCNS280_TD;eSE620X vESS
- affected V100R005C00,V100R005C10
- affected V100R001C10SPC200,V100R001C20SPC200
References (1)
- https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20210714-01-privilege-en (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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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