Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei Product

There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to lack of privilege restrictions, an authenticated local attacker can perform specific operation to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2021-78991)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-39976.

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

<http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20211103-01-privilege-en&gt;