Huawei Server Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Huawei Server. This affects an unknown part of the component Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller. The manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-7950. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei Server (affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have a JSON injection vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An authenticated, remote attacker can launch a JSON injection to modify the password of administrator. Successful exploit may allow attackers to obtain the management privilege of the system.

The bug was discovered 05/30/2018. The weakness was disclosed 06/01/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at huawei.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2018-7950 since 03/09/2018. The attack may be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/19/2023). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1055 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

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

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.6
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.6

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Class: Injection
CWE: CWE-74 / CWE-707 / CWE-20
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03/09/2018 🔍
05/30/2018 +82 days 🔍
06/01/2018 +1 days 🔍
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06/02/2018 +1 days 🔍
03/19/2023 +1751 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: sa-20180530-02
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-7950 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-7950
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-118637
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Entryinfo

Created: 06/02/2018 10:33
Updated: 03/19/2023 14:28
Changes: 06/02/2018 10:33 (56), 02/11/2020 21:08 (2), 03/19/2023 14:28 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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