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Security Advisory - Multiple Vulnerabilities in XML Parser of Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20171215-01-xml
  • Initial Release Date: Dec 15, 2017
  • Last Release Date: Dec 15, 2017

There are multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in some Huawei products due to the lack of validation. An authenticated local attacker can craft specific XML files to the affected products and parse this file, which result in DoS attacks or remote code execution on the device. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-08142)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17146.

There are multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in some Huawei products due to the lack of validation. An authenticated local attacker can craft specific XML files to the affected products and parse this file, which result in DoS attacks. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-10127)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17147.

There is a DoS vulnerability in some Huawei products due to the lack of validation when the malloc is called. An authenticated local attacker can craft specific XML files to the affected products and parse this file, which result in DoS attacks. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-10128)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17148.

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-20171215-01-xml-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

DP300

V500R002C00

V500R002C00SPCb00

HWPSIRT-2017-08142:
An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to perform a denial of service attack or remote code execution on the device.

HWPSIRT-2017-10127 and HWPSIRT-2017-10128:
An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to perform a denial of service attack on the device.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
HWPSIRT-2017-08142:
Base Score: 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 7.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

HWPSIRT-2017-10127 and HWPSIRT-2017-10128:
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
HWPSIRT-2017-08142:
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker gains access to the affected products and craft specific XML file.
Vulnerability details:
There are multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in some Huawei products due to the lack of validation. An authenticated local attacker can craft specific XML files to the affected products and parse this file, which result in DoS attacks or remote code execution on the device. 

HWPSIRT-2017-10127:
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker gains access to the affected products and craft specific XML file.
Vulnerability details:
There are multiple integer overflow vulnerabilities in some Huawei products due to the lack of validation. An authenticated local attacker can craft specific XML files to the affected products and parse this file, which result in DoS attacks.

HWPSIRT-2017-10128:
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker gains access to the affected products and craft specific XML file.
Vulnerability details:
There is a DoS vulnerability in some Huawei products due to the lack of validation when the malloc is called. An authenticated local attacker can craft specific XML files to the affected products and parse this file, which result in DoS attacks.

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.

These vulnerabilities were discovered by Huawei internal tester.

2017-12-15 V1.0 INITIAL

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