Security Advisory - XXE Vulnerability in the E9000
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160824-01-e9000
- Initial Release Date: Aug 24, 2016
- Last Release Date: Aug 24, 2016
E9000 has an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability when parsing user-supplied XML documents in HMM (Hyper Management Module). Attackers could exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files and cause a denial of the web service. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-05249)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-6898
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-20160824-01-e9000-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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E9000 Chassis |
V100R001C00 |
V100R001C00SPC296 |
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:S/C:C/I:N/A:P)
Temporal Score: 6.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
The attacker has normal user permissions.
2. Attacking procedure:
Attackers could submit malicious XML documents in HMM to read arbitrary files and cause a denial of the web service.
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.
2016-08-24 V1.0 INITIAL
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