VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6898

medium
Published 2016-09-07 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
6.6
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.6

Description

XML external entity (XXE) vulnerability in the Hyper Management Module (HMM) in Huawei E9000 rack servers with software before V100R001C00SPC296 allows remote authenticated users to read arbitrary files or cause a denial of service (web service outage) via a crafted XML document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
huawei huaweie9000_chassis{"endIncluding":"v100r001c00"}

References

CWEs

CWE-284

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.