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Security Advisory - Buffer Error Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

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

There are a buffer error vulnerability in Electronic Numbers to URI Mapping (ENUM) module some Huawei products. An unauthenticated, remote attacker has to control the peer device and send specially crafted ENUM packets to the affected products. Due to insufficient verification of some values in the packets, successful exploit may cause buffer error and some services abnormal. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-10111)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17310.

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-enum-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

DP300

V500R002C00

V500R002C00SPCb00

RP200

V600R006C00

TEX0 V600R006C00SPC500

TE30

V100R001C10

Upgrade to TEX0 V600R006C00SPC500

V500R002C00

V600R006C00

TEX0 V600R006C00SPC500

TE40

V500R002C00

Upgrade to TEX0 V600R006C00SPC500

V600R006C00

TEX0 V600R006C00SPC500

TE50

V500R002C00

Upgrade to TEX0 V600R006C00SPC500

V600R006C00

TEX0 V600R006C00SPC500

TE60

V100R001C10

Upgrade to TEX0 V600R006C00SPC500

V500R002C00

V600R006C00

TEX0 V600R006C00SPC500



Successful exploit may cause some services abnormal.


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

Base Score: 3.7 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Temporal Score: 3.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


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

1. An attacker has to control the peer device.

Vulnerability details:

An unauthenticated, remote attacker has to control the peer device and send specially crafted ENUM packets to the affected products. Due to insufficient verification of some values in the packets, successful exploit may cause buffer error and some services abnormal.


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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