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high 7.8

CVE-2021-22396 json

There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products.

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-9542

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to improper privilege management, a local attacker with common privilege may access some specific files in the affected products. Successful exploit will cause privilege escalation.Affected product versions include:eCNS280_TD V100R005C00,V100R005C10;eSE620X vESS V100R001C10SPC200,V100R001C20SPC200.

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Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a eCNS280_TD;eSE620X vESS

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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