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Improper Access Control

CVE-2016-7107

High
7.5/10

Summary

Huawei Unified Maintenance Audit (UMA) before V200R001C00SPC200 SPH206 allows remote attackers to reset arbitrary user passwords and consequently affect system data integrity via unspecified vectors.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE

CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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