Security Advisory - Protection Mechanism Failure Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200805-01-failure
- Initial Release Date: 2020-08-05
- Last Release Date: 2020-08-05
There is a protection mechanism failure vulnerability in some Huawei products. The product incorrectly uses a protection mechanism. An attacker has to find a way to exploit the vulnerability to conduct directed attacks against the affected product. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-05077)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9079.
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-20200805-01-failure-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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FusionSphere OpenStack |
8.0.0 |
8.0.1 |
Attackers may exploit the vulnerability to conduct directed attacks against the affected product.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 7.1 (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.6 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
1. Attackers can access the network where the affected device resides.
Vulnerability details:
There is a protection mechanism failure vulnerability in some Huawei products. The product incorrectly uses a protection mechanism. An attacker has to find a way to exploit the vulnerability to conduct directed attacks against the affected product.
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.
2020-08-05 V1.0 INITIAL
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