Vulnerabilities > CVE-2014-8358 - Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in Huawei Ec156 Firmware, Ec176 Firmware and Ec177 Firmware

047910
CVSS 9.3 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
huawei
CWE-426
critical
exploit available

Summary

Huawei EC156, EC176, and EC177 USB Modem products with software before UTPS-V200R003B015D02SP07C1014 (23.015.02.07.1014) and before V200R003B015D02SP08C1014 (23.015.02.08.1014) use a weak ACL for the "Mobile Partner" directory, which allows remote attackers to gain SYSTEM privileges by compromising a low privilege account and modifying Mobile Partner.exe.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Leveraging/Manipulating Configuration File Search Paths
    This attack loads a malicious resource into a program's standard path used to bootstrap and/or provide contextual information for a program like a path variable or classpath. J2EE applications and other component based applications that are built from multiple binaries can have very long list of dependencies to execute. If one of these libraries and/or references is controllable by the attacker then application controls can be circumvented by the attacker. A standard UNIX path looks similar to this If the attacker modifies the path variable to point to a locale that includes malicious resources then the user unwittingly can execute commands on the attackers' behalf: This is a form of usurping control of the program and the attack can be done on the classpath, database resources, or any other resources built from compound parts. At runtime detection and blocking of this attack is nearly impossible, because the configuration allows execution.

Exploit-Db

descriptionHuawei Technologies du Mobile Broadband 16.0 - Local Privilege Escalation. CVE-2014-8358,CVE-2014-8359. Local exploit for windows platform
idEDB-ID:30477
last seen2016-02-03
modified2013-12-24
published2013-12-24
reporterLiquidWorm
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/30477/
titleHuawei Technologies du Mobile Broadband 16.0 - Local Privilege Escalation

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/128767/huawei-dllhijack.txt
idPACKETSTORM:128767
last seen2016-12-05
published2014-10-21
reporterOsanda Malith
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128767/Huawei-Mobile-Partner-DLL-Hijacking.html
titleHuawei Mobile Partner DLL Hijacking