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Security Advisory - Improper Licenses Management Vulnerability in Some Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20210407-01-resourcemanagement
  • Initial Release Date: 2021-04-07
  • Last Release Date: 2021-04-07

There has a license management vulnerability in some huawei products. An attacker with high privilege needs to perform specific operations to exploit the vulnerability on the affected device. Due to improper license management of the device, as a result, the license file can be applied and affect integrity of the device. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-15477)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-22329.
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-20210407-01-resourcemanagement-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

S12700

V200R007C01

V200R020C00SPC300

V200R007C01B102

V200R008C00

V200R010C00SPC300

V200R011C00

V200R011C00SPC100

V200R011C10

S1700

V200R010C00SPC300

V200R020C00SPC300

V200R011C00

V200R011C00SPC100

V200R011C10

S2700

V200R008C00

V200R020C00SPC300

V200R010C00SPC300

V200R011C00

V200R011C00SPC100

V200R011C10

S5700

V200R008C00

V200R020C00SPC300

V200R010C00SPC300

V200R011C00

V200R011C00SPC100

V200R011C10

V200R011C10SPC100

S6700

V200R008C00

V200R020C00SPC300

V200R010C00SPC300

V200R011C00

V200R011C00SPC100

V200R011C10

V200R011C10SPC100

S7700

V200R008C00

V200R020C00SPC300

V200R010C00SPC300

V200R011C00

V200R011C00SPC100

V200R011C10

S9700

V200R007C01

V200R013SPH015

V200R007C01B102

V200R008C00

V200R010C00SPC300

V200R011C00

V200R011C00SPC100

V200R011C10


The vulnerability can be exploited to affect the integrity of the device.


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

Base Score: 4.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Temporal Score: 4.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


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:

An attacker with high privilege needs to perform specific operations to exploit the vulnerability on the affected device. Due to improper license management of the device, as a result, the license file can be applied and affect integrity of 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 Huawei internal tester.


2021-04-07 V1.0 INITIAL


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