CVE-2018-7949: Huawei 1288h v5 Firmware

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have a privilege escalation vulnerability. A remote attacker may send some specially crafted login messages to the affected products. Due to improper authentication design, successful exploit enables low privileged users to get or modify passwords of highly privileged users.

Affected products

• Huawei 1288h v5 Firmware: version 100r005c00 only
• Huawei 2288h v5 Firmware: version 100r005c00 only
• Huawei 2488 v5 Firmware: version 100r005c00 only
• Huawei CH121 v3 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei CH121 v5 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei CH121L v3 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei CH121L v5 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei CH140 v3 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei CH140L v3 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei CH220 v3 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei CH222 v3 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei CH242 v3 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei CH242 v5 Firmware: version 100r001c00 only
• Huawei RH1288 v3 Firmware: version 100r003c00 only
• Huawei RH2288 v3 Firmware: version 100r003c00 only
• Huawei RH2288H v3 Firmware: version 100r003c00 only
• Huawei XH310 v3 Firmware: version 100r003c00 only
• Huawei XH321 v3 Firmware: version 100r003c00 only
• Huawei XH321 v5 Firmware: version 100r005c00 only
• Huawei XH620 v3 Firmware: version 100r003c00 only

Published 2018-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.