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Security Advisory - Improper Authentication Vulnerability in Several Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200506-02-authentication
  • Initial Release Date: 2020-05-06
  • Last Release Date: 2021-11-19

Some Huawei products have an improper authentication vulnerability. Attackers need to perform some operations to exploit the vulnerability. Successful exploit may obtain certain permissions on the device. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-03160)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9099.

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-20200506-02-authentication-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

IPS Module

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

V500R001C20

V500R001C30

V500R001C50

V500R001C60

V500R001C80

V500R005C00

V500R005C10

V500R005C20

V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

NGFW Module

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

V500R001C20

V500R001C30

V500R001C50

V500R001C60

V500R002C00

V500R002C10

V500R002C20

V500R002C30

V500R005C00

V500R005C10

V500R005C20

V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

NIP6300

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

V500R001C20

V500R001C30

V500R001C50

V500R001C60

V500R001C80

V500R005C00

V500R005C10

V500R005C20

V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

NIP6600

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

V500R001C20

V500R001C30

V500R001C50

V500R001C60

V500R001C80

V500R005C00

V500R005C10

V500R005C20

V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

NIP6800

V500R001C60

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

V500R001C80

V500R005C00

V500R005C10

V500R005C20

V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

Secospace USG6300

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

V500R001C20

V500R001C30

V500R001C50

V500R001C60

V500R001C80

V500R005C00

V500R005C10

V500R005C20

V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

Secospace USG6500

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

V500R001C20

V500R001C30

V500R001C50

V500R001C60

V500R001C80

V500R005C00

V500R005C10

V500R005C20

V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

Secospace USG6600

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

V500R001C20

V500R001C30

V500R001C50

V500R001C60

V500R001C80

V500R005C00

V500R005C10

V500R005C20

V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

USG9500

V500R001C00

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

V500R001C20

V500R001C30

V500R001C50

V500R001C60

V500R001C80

V500R005C00

V500R005C10

V500R005C20

V500R005C20SPC500+V500R005SPH007

USG6000E
V600R007C00
V600R007C00SPC200+V600R007SPH002
IPS6000E
V600R007C00
V600R007C00SPC200+V600R007SPH002
AR
V200R007C00
Upgrade to
V200R007C00SPCb00+ V200R007SPH026 or V200R010C10SPC700
V200R009C00
Upgrade to
V200R009C00SPC500+ V200R009SPH021 or V200R010C10SPC700
V200R010C00
Upgrade to V200R010C10SPC700

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain certain device permissions.


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

Base Score: 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Temporal Score: 6.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

Overall Score: 6.0


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

The attacker can access the network where the affected device resides.

Vulnerability details:

Some Huawei products have an improper authentication vulnerability. Attackers need to perform some operations to exploit the vulnerability. Successful exploit may obtain certain permissions on the device.


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 external researcher.


2021-11-19 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;
2020-05-06 V1.0 INITIAL


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