CVE-2018-7951 — The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers ha

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 al

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
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	1288H V5 V100R005C00, 2288H V5 V100R005C00, 2488 V5 V100R005C00, CH121 V3 V100R001C00, CH121L V3 V100R001C00, CH121L V5 V100R001C00, CH121 V5 V100R001C00, CH140 V3 V100R001C00, CH140L V3 V100R001C00, CH220 V3 V100R001C00, CH222 V3 V100R001C00, CH242 V3 V100R001C00, CH242 V5 V100R001C00, RH1288 V3 V100R003C00, RH2288 V3 V100R003C00, RH2288H V3 V100R003C00, XH310 V3 V100R003C00, XH321 V3 V100R003C00, XH321 V5 V100R005C00, XH620 V3 V100R003C00

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-06-01T14:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T06:37:59.585Z

09References

• www.huawei.com — http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180530-02-server-…