Security Advisory - VCM User Horizontal Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Huawei Video Content Management (VCM) system does not properly authenticate online users’ identities and privileges, which leads to users’ horizontal privilege escalation. An attacker may craft malicious messages, send them to the server, and perform illegitimate operations on cases created by other users, affecting other user operations and use (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-07043).

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-8332.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

<http://www.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/security-bulletins/security-advisories/hw-462985.htm&gt;