CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-3911

Improper Access Control

Published: May 21, 2015 | Modified: May 22, 2015
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
9 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Huawei E587 Mobile WiFi with firmware before 11.203.30.00.00 allows remote attackers to bypass authentication, change configurations, send messages, and cause a denial of service (device restart) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness

The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
E587_mobile_wifi_firmware Huawei * 11.100.00.00.00 (including)

Extended Description

Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:

When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc. There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:

Potential Mitigations

  • Compartmentalize the system to have “safe” areas where trust boundaries can be unambiguously drawn. Do not allow sensitive data to go outside of the trust boundary and always be careful when interfacing with a compartment outside of the safe area.
  • Ensure that appropriate compartmentalization is built into the system design, and the compartmentalization allows for and reinforces privilege separation functionality. Architects and designers should rely on the principle of least privilege to decide the appropriate time to use privileges and the time to drop privileges.

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