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Security Advisory - Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20171215-01-ike
  • Initial Release Date: Dec 15, 2017
  • Last Release Date: Sep 16, 2020

There is an insufficient input validation vulnerability in some Huawei products. An unauthenticated, remote attacker may send crafted IKE V2 messages to the affected products. Due to the insufficient validation of the messages, successful exploit will cause invalid memory access and result in a denial of service on the affected products. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-02002)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17299.

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-20171215-01-ike-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AR120-S

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCa00

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR1200

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R006C10SPC600

V200R006C13

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCa00

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R007C02

AR1200-S

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R008C20SPC800PWE

AR150

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R007C02

V200R007C02PWE

AR150-S

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR160

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R006C10SPC600

V200R006C12

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R007C02

AR200

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR200-S

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR2200

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R006C10SPC600

V200R006C13

V200R006C16PWE

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCa00

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R007C02

AR2200-S

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R008C20SPC800PWE

AR3200

V200R006C10SPC200

V200R008SPH003

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R006C10SPC600

V200R006C11

V200R007C00

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCa00

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R007C02

AR3600

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR510

V200R006C12

V200R008SPH003

V200R006C13

V200R006C15

V200R006C16

V200R006C17

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

DBS3900 TDD LTE

V100R003C00

V100R004C10SPC400

V100R004C10

IPS Module

V500R001C30SPC100PWE

V500R001C60SPC200

V500R001C30SPC200PWE

NGFW Module

V500R002C00SPC100PWE

V500R001C60SPC200

V500R002C00SPC200PWE

NIP6300

V500R001C30SPC100PWE

V500R001C60SPC200

V500R001C30SPC200PWE

NIP6600

V500R001C30SPC100PWE

V500R001C60SPC200

V500R001C30SPC200PWE

NetEngine16EX

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

SRG1300

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R007C02

SRG2300

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R007C02

SRG3300

V200R006C10SPC300

V200R008SPH003

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

Secospace USG6300

V500R001C30SPC100PWE

V500R001C60SPC200

V500R001C30SPC200PWE

Secospace USG6500

V500R001C30SPC100PWE

V500R001C60SPC200

V500R001C30SPC200PWE

Secospace USG6600

V500R001C30SPC100PWE

V500R001C60SPC200

V500R001C30SPC200PWE

USG9500

V500R001C30SPC100PWE

V500R001C60

V500R001C30SPC200PWE



Successful exploit will cause invalid memory access and result in a denial of service on the affected products.

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

Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Temporal Score: 7.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

1. The attacker gains access to the affected products network.

2. IKE V2 is configured in the affected products.

Vulnerability details:

An unauthenticated, remote attacker may send crafted IKE V2 messages to the affected products. Due to the insufficient validation of the messages, successful exploit will cause invalid memory access and result in a denial of service on the affected products.

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.

2020-09-16 V1.3 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2018-04-25 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2017-12-28 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2017-12-15 V1.0 INITIAL

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