Security Advisory - Improper Authentication Vulnerability in Several Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20191204-04-dos
- Initial Release Date: 2019-12-04
- Last Release Date: 2020-01-08
There is an improper authentication vulnerability in several products. The device does not perform a sufficient authentication when doing certain operation, successful exploit could allow an attacker to cause the device to reboot after launch a man in the middle attack. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-05126)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5253.
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-20191204-04-dos-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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E5572-855 |
Versions earlier than 8.0.1.3(H335SP1C233) |
Upgrade to 8.0.1.3(H335SP1C233) |
Successful exploit could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition after launch a man in the middle attack.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.3 (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker should launch a man in the middle attack.
Vulnerability details:
The device does not perform a sufficient authentication when doing certain operation, successful exploit could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service condition after launch a man in the middle attack.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2019-12-04 V1.0 INITIAL
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