CVE-2016-5821

HIGH

Huawei HiSuite <4.0.4.204-301 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Huawei HiSuite before 4.0.4.204_ove (Out of China) and before 4.0.4.301 (China) use a weak ACL (FILE_WRITE_DATA for BUILTIN\Users) for the HiSuite service directory, which allows local users to gain SYSTEM privileges via a Trojan horse (1) SspiCli.dll or (2) USERENV.dll file or possibly other unspecified DLL files.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/538797/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91418

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 19.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-264
Status published
Products (1)
huawei/hisuite < 4.0.3.301
Published Jul 13, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026