Security Advisory - Improper Authorization Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170927-01-dos
- Initial Release Date: 2017-09-27
- Last Release Date: 2017-09-27
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8158.
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-20170927-01-dos-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
|
FusionCompute |
V100R005C00 |
Upgrade to V100R005C10U1 |
|
V100R005C10 |
V100R005C10U1 |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker can log in to the host machine.
Vulnerability details:
Due to improper permission settings for a certain file on the host machine, an authenticated attacker could create a large number of VM processes to exhaust system resources. Successful exploit could make new VMs unavailable.
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.
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