641
VMScore

CVE-2016-5821

Published: 13/07/2016 Updated: 09/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 641
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Huawei HiSuite prior to 4.0.4.204_ove (Out of China) and prior to 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.

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Exploits

A privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in the Huawei HiSuite software which can be used by a local user to elevate privileges to become the SYSTEM user The root cause of the problem are insecure ACLs on the HandSet service directory which allows any authenticated user to place a crafted DLL file in that directory to perform a DLL hija ...