Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Multiple Huawei Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160921-02-firewall
- Initial Release Date: 2016-09-21
- Last Release Date: 2016-09-28
There is a DoS vulnerability in some Huawei products. A remote attacker can directly access the device through a certain URL without login authentication, which can make the device restart. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-06063)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8278.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160921-02-firewall-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
|
USG9520 |
V300R001C01 |
V300R001C01SPCa00 |
|
USG9560 |
V300R001C01 |
V300R001C01SPCa00 |
|
USG9580 |
V300R001C01 |
V300R001C01SPCa00 |
Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to make the device restart.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 7.8 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Temporal Score: 6.4 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
The attacker has access to the device;
2. Attacking procedure:
A remote attacker can directly access the device through a certain URL without login authentication, which can make the device restart.
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 discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2016-09-28 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the resolved versions.
2016-09-21 V1.0 INITIAL
None
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