CVE-2018-7942
The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have an authentication bypass vulnerability. An…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 24% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The iBMC (Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller) of some Huawei servers have an authentication bypass vulnerability. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may send some specially crafted messages to the affected products. Due to improper authentication design, successful exploit may cause some information leak.
Timeline
ID reserved
By huawei
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.6% · top 24% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · 1288H V5; 2288H V5; 2488 V5; CH121 V3; CH121L V3; CH121L V5; CH121 V5; CH140 V3; CH140L V3; CH220 V3; CH222 V3; CH242 V3; CH242 V5; RH1288 V3; RH2288 V3; RH2288H V3; XH310 V3; XH321 V3; XH321 V5; XH620 V3
- affected 1288H V5 V100R005C00
- affected 2288H V5 V100R005C00
- affected 2488 V5 V100R005C00
- affected CH121 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH121L V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH121L V5 V100R001C00
- affected CH121 V5 V100R001C00
- affected CH140 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH140L V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH220 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH222 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH242 V3 V100R001C00
- affected CH242 V5 V100R001C00
- affected RH1288 V3 V100R003C00
- affected RH2288 V3 V100R003C00
- affected RH2288H V3 V100R003C00
- affected XH310 V3 V100R003C00
- affected XH321 V3 V100R003C00
- affected XH321 V5 V100R005C00
- affected XH620 V3 V100R003C00
References
1
- http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180523-01-server-en (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-19654 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2018-7942)Record last updated .