Weak ACL in Huawei HiSuite Allows Local Privilege Escalation

Weak ACL in Huawei HiSuite Allows Local Privilege Escalation

CVE-2016-5821 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Huawei HiSuite before 4.0.4.204_ove (Out of China) and before 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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