A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Huawei Honor WS851 up to 1.1.21.1. This issue affects an unknown part of the component Config Data Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Huawei Honor WS851 routers with software 1.1.21.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to modify configuration data via vectors related to a "file injection vulnerability," aka HWPSIRT-2016-05052.

The weakness was presented 06/14/2016 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at huawei.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2016-5366 since 06/09/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/23/2022). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-87922 and VDB-87924 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Honor WS851

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• 1.1.21.0
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