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Security Advisory - Three JSON Injection Vulnerabilities in Huawei Some Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20180523-01-json
  • Initial Release Date: May 23, 2018
  • Last Release Date: Jun 04, 2018

There are three JSON injection vulnerabilities in Huawei some product. An authenticated, remote attacker can launch a JSON injection to modify the password of administrator. Due to insufficient verification of the input, this could be exploited to obtain the management privilege of the system. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-02052, HWPSIRT-2018-02053 and HWPSIRT-2018-02054)

The three vulnerabilities have been assigned three Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) IDs: CVE-2018-7902, CVE-2018-7903 and CVE-2018-7904.

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-20180523-01-json-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

1288H V5

V100R005C00

V100R005C00SPC113(iBMC:V300)

2288H V5

V100R005C00

V100R005C00SPC113(iBMC:V300)




By exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can obtain the management privilege of the system.



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

HWPSIRT-2018-02052, HWPSIRT-2018-02053 and HWPSIRT-2018-02054:

Base Score: 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 8.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


HWPSIRT-2018-02052, HWPSIRT-2018-02053 and HWPSIRT-2018-02054:

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

The attacker could log in to the system as a user.

Vulnerability details:

There are three JSON injection vulnerabilities in Huawei some product. An authenticated, remote attacker can launch a JSON injection to modify the password of administrator. Due to insufficient verification of the input, this could be exploited to obtain the management privilege of the system.



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.


2018-06-04 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the affected version and fix version information
2018-05-23 V1.0 INITIAL

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