Huawei openUBMC gives low-privilege SNMP users admin rights
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · Low
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-266.
Summary
Huawei openUBMC versions through 26.06 are affected. The flaw is an incorrect privilege assignment (CWE-266): openUBMC gives the full set of nine privileges to pseudo-identities that represent SNMP callers. An authenticated remote attacker with low privileges can invoke mapped backend operations as an administrative identity, which affects integrity and availability.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-27
Description from the CNA
openUBMC assigns the full privilege set to pseudo-identities representing SNMP callers. An authenticated, but low-privilege, SNMP user can therefore invoke mapped backend operations as an administrative identity. In `route_mapper/account.lua`, `get_user_privilege` returns the complete nine-privilege set for a `special_users` group that includes the `SNMPv1_v2c` pseudo-user.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
The sources list no fixed version for openUBMC.
Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-10-27
Timeline
- 2026-10-13 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-65199
- 2026-10-13 Alias added: GHSA-246r-j53h-wrm2
- 2026-10-14 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
- 2026-10-15 CISA SSVC decision points changed
References
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Sources
- CVE-2026-65199 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-65199 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-246r-j53h-wrm2 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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