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Security Advisory - Information Leak Vulnerability in Huawei FusionSphere Product

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20160824-01-xenstore
  • Initial Release Date: 2016-08-24
  • Last Release Date: 2016-08-25

The open-source component Xenstore in the FusionSphere has an information leak vulnerability due to loose security settings. Successful exploit could allow an authenticated attacker to obtain partial information from virtual machines. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-06067).

 Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160824-01-xenstore-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

FusionSphere

Earlier than V100R005C10U30 versions

V100R005C10U30

An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to obtain partial information from virtual machines.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).

Base Score: 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Temporal Score: 3.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:
The attacker has connected to the device network and login one virtual machine.

2. Attacking procedure:
This information leak vulnerability due to loose security settings of XenStore component. Successful exploit could allow an authenticated attacker to obtain partial information from virtual machines.

Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.

This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by TheatActor of Sec-un. Huawei would like to thank TheatActor of Sec-un for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.

2016-08-25 V1.1 UPDATE Updated the Source information

2016-08-24 V1.0 INITIAL

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