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Security Advisory - Input Validation Vulnerability in Huawei Routers

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20160713-01-router
  • Initial Release Date: Jul 13, 2016
  • Last Release Date: Jul 13, 2016

There is an input validation vulnerability in Huawei access routers, an attacker may exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malformed packet and sending it to the device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a Denial of Service or remote code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-05014)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6206.

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-20160713-01-router-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AR3200

V200R001C00

Upgrade to V200R007C00SPC600

V200R001C01

V200R002C00

V200R002C01

V200R002C02

V200R002C05

V200R003C00

V200R003C01

V200R003C05

V200R005C00

V200R005C10

V200R005C20

V200R005C21

V200R005C30

V200R005C31

V200R005C32

V200R006C00

V200R006C10

V200R006C11

V200R006C12

V200R006C13

V200R006C15

V200R006C16

V200R006C17

An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a Denial of Service or remote code execution.

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

Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Temporal Score: 6.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:

The attacker gains access to the device network;

2. Attacking procedure:

An attacker may exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malformed packet and sending it to the device. An exploit could allow the attacker to cause a Denial of Service or remote code execution.

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.
2016-07-13 V1.0 INITIAL

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