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Security Advisory - Improper Resource Management Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20180418-01-ar
  • Initial Release Date: Apr 18, 2018
  • Last Release Date: Apr 18, 2018

There is an improper resource management vulnerability in some AR series products. Due to the improper implementation of ACL mechanism, a remote attacker may send TCP messages to the management interface of the affected device to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit could exhaust the socket resource of management interface, leading to a DoS condition. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-03021) 
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7920. 
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-20180418-01-ar-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AR1200

V200R006C10SPC300

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

AR160

V200R006C10SPC300

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

AR200

V200R006C10SPC300

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

AR2200

V200R006C10SPC300

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

AR3200

V200R006C10SPC300

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500


Successful exploit could exhaust the socket resource of management interface, leading to a DoS condition.


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: 

The attacker gains access to the affected device network. 

Vulnerability details:  

Due to the improper implementation of ACL mechanism, a remote attacker may send TCP messages to the management interface of the affected device to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit could exhaust the socket resource of management interface, leading to a DoS condition.

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.
2018-04-18 V1.0 INITIAL

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