The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have a privilege escalation vulnerability.

published 2018-06-01 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2018-19661

cvss: 8.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits: 0; none known

The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have a privilege escalation vulnerability. A remote attacker may send some specially crafted login messages to the affected products. Due to improper authentication design, successful exploit enables low privileged users to get or modify passwords of highly privileged users.

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Exploit prediction

0.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	8.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. 1288H V5; 2288H V5; 2488 V5 ; CH121 V3; CH121L V3; CH121L V5 ; CH121 V5 ; CH140 V3; CH140L V3; CH220 V3; CH222 V3; CH242 V3; CH242 V5 ; RH1288 V3; RH2288 V3; RH2288H V3; XH310 V3; XH321 V3; XH321 V5; XH620 V3

Classification

Weakness

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

References

huawei.com /en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180530-03-server-en
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-7949
NVD CVE-2018-7949

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