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Security Advisory - Information Disclosure Vulnerability in CIDAM Protocol on Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20171220-01-cidam
  • Initial Release Date: Dec 20, 2017
  • Last Release Date: Dec 20, 2017

Part of Huawei Products use the CIDAM protocol, which contains sensitive information in the message when it is implemented. So these products has an information disclosure vulnerability. An authenticated remote attacker could track and get the message of a target system. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to get the information and cause the sensitive information disclosure. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-08146)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17303.

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-20171220-01-cidam-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

DP300

V500R002C00

V500R002C00SPCb00

V500R002C00B010

V500R002C00B011

V500R002C00B012

V500R002C00B013

V500R002C00B014

V500R002C00B017

V500R002C00B018

V500R002C00SPC100

V500R002C00SPC200

V500R002C00SPC300

V500R002C00SPC400

V500R002C00SPC500

V500R002C00SPC600

V500R002C00SPC800

V500R002C00SPC900

V500R002C00SPCa00

RP200

V500R002C00SPC200

Upgrade to TE30 V600R006C00SPC400

V600R006C00

TE30 V600R006C00SPC400

V600R006C00SPC200

V600R006C00SPC300

TE30

V100R001C10SPC300

Upgrade to TE30 V600R006C00SPC400

V100R001C10SPC500

V100R001C10SPC600

V100R001C10SPC700B010

V500R002C00SPC200

V500R002C00SPC500

V500R002C00SPC600

V500R002C00SPC700

V500R002C00SPC900

V500R002C00SPCb00

V600R006C00

TE30 V600R006C00SPC400

V600R006C00SPC200

V600R006C00SPC300

TE40

V500R002C00SPC600

Upgrade to TE40 V600R006C00SPC400

V500R002C00SPC700

V500R002C00SPC900

V500R002C00SPCb00

V600R006C00

TE40 V600R006C00SPC400

V600R006C00SPC200

V600R006C00SPC300

TE50

V500R002C00SPC600

Upgrade to TE50 V600R006C00SPC400

V500R002C00SPC700

V500R002C00SPCb00

V600R006C00

TE50 V600R006C00SPC400

V600R006C00SPC200

V600R006C00SPC300

TE60

V100R001C10

Upgrade to TE60 V600R006C00SPC400

V100R001C10B001

V100R001C10B002

V100R001C10B010

V100R001C10B011

V100R001C10B012

V100R001C10B013

V100R001C10B014

V100R001C10B016

V100R001C10B017

V100R001C10B018

V100R001C10B019

V100R001C10SPC400

V100R001C10SPC500

V100R001C10SPC600

V100R001C10SPC700

V100R001C10SPC800B011

V100R001C10SPC900

V500R002C00

V500R002C00B010

V500R002C00B011

V500R002C00SPC100

V500R002C00SPC200

V500R002C00SPC300

V500R002C00SPC600

V500R002C00SPC700

V500R002C00SPC800

V500R002C00SPC900

V500R002C00SPCa00

V500R002C00SPCb00

V500R002C00SPCd00

V500R002C00SPCe00

V600R006C00

TE60 V600R006C00SPC400

V600R006C00SPC100

V600R006C00SPC200

V600R006C00SPC300

Successful exploit could allow the attacker to get the information and cause the sensitive information disclosure.

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

Base Score: 4.9 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) Temporal Score: 4.6 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

1. Attacker can connect to the devices.

2. The attacker must get the right of user of device.

Vulnerability details:

Part of Huawei Products use the CIDAM protocol, which contains sensitive information in the message when it is implemented. So these products has an information disclosure vulnerability. An authenticated remote attacker could track and get the message of a target system. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to get the information and cause the sensitive information disclosure. 

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.

2017-12-20 V1.0 INITIAL

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