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Security Advisory - XSS Vulnerability in Huawei Agile Controller-Campus

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20160203-01-agilecontroller
  • Initial Release Date: Feb 03, 2016
  • Last Release Date: Feb 04, 2016

A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability exists in some portal authentication page of the Agile Controller-Campus. When an attacker sends a malicious link to the system, the user is online and clicks on the link, XSS occurs. Therefore, the attacker may obtain the administrator privileges of the system. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-11033)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-2214.

Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160203-01-agilecontroller-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Agile Controller-Campus

V100R001C00SPC315

V100R001C00SPC319

Attackers can obtain the administrator privileges of the system.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).

Base Score: 7.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Temporal Score: 6.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:

Attackers can access the network where the Agile Controller-Campus locates and a user is online during the attack.

2. Attacking procedure:

After the attacker sent a malicious link to the system, the user clicks on the malicious link, then the XSS occurred.

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/index.htm

This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.

2016-02-04 V1.1 FINAL assigned a CVE ID to the vulnerability

2016-02-03 V1.0 INITIAL

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