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Security Advisory - Information Leakage Vulnerability on Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20191211-01-vrp
  • Initial Release Date: 2019-12-11
  • Last Release Date: 2021-01-07

There is an information leakage vulnerability on some Huawei products. An attacker with low permissions can view some high-privilege information by running specific commands.Successful exploit could cause an information disclosure condition. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-04080) 
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5259. 
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-20191211-01-vrp-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AR120-S

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

V200R010C00

Upgrade to V200R010C10SPC600

AR1200

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR1200-S

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR150

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR150-S

V200R005C00

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR160

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR200

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR200-S

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR2200

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR2200-S

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR3200

V200R005C20

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R005C32

V200R006C10

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00

AR3600

V200R006C10

Upgrade to V200R009SPH023

V200R007C00

V200R008C50

V200R009C00


Successful exploit could cause an information disclosure condition.


The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Temporal Score: 4.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

The attacker could gain access the affected network and gain a low permission.

Vulnerability details:

An attacker with low permissions can view some high-privilege information by running specific commands. Successful exploit could cause an information disclosure condition.


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 and Raphaël LOB from Oppida. Huawei would like to thank Raphaël LOB for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.



2021-01-07 V1.1 UPDATE Update the "Source" information.

2019-12-11 V1.0 INITIAL

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