Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei Policy Center
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160217-01-policycenter
- Initial Release Date: Feb 17, 2016
- Last Release Date: Mar 02, 2016
Huawei Policy Center dynamically allocates network resources in a unified manner, enabling the network to provide services with more agility.
Huawei Policy Center has a privilege escalation vulnerability. An attacker could log in to the device as a low-privilege user, craft a URL that contains commands with admin permissions. The attacker can obtain the admin permissions to crash the system. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-12011)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-2405.
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-20160217-01-policycenter-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Policy Center |
V100R003C10 |
V100R003C10SPC020 |
This vulnerability can be exploited by attackers to obtain admin permissions, crash the system.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 9.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Temporal Score: 7.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
The attacker logs in to the Policy Center as a low-privilege user.
2. Attacking procedure:
An attacker logs in to the Policy Center as a low-privilege user. When the attacker crafts a URL containing commands with admin permissions, the server does not validate the URL. Then, the attacker can obtain the admin permissions to crash the system.
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.
2016-03-02 V1.1 UPDATED Assigned a CVE ID to the vulnerability
2016-02-17 V1.0 INITIAL
None
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