A vulnerability has been found in Huawei ME906s-158 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

ME906s-158 earlier than ME906S_Installer_13.1805.10.3 versions has a privilege elevation vulnerability. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to modify the configuration information containing malicious files and trick users into executing the files, resulting in the execution of arbitrary code.

The bug was discovered 09/21/2017. The weakness was released 11/22/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared at huawei.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2017-8185 since 04/25/2017. The exploitation appears to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 62 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version ME906S_Installer_13.1805.10.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• ME906s-158

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• commercial

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