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Security Advisory - Four Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Some Microsoft Windows Systems

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20190819-01-windows
  • Initial Release Date: Aug 19, 2019
  • Last Release Date: Aug 19, 2019

Microsoft released four security advisories to disclose four remote code execution vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services. An unauthenticated attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests to exploit the vulnerabilities. Successful exploit may cause arbitrary code execution on the target system. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-08107,HWPSIRT-2019-08108,HWPSIRT-2019-08109 and HWPSIRT-2019-08110)

The four vulnerabilities have been assigned four Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) IDs: CVE-2019-1181, CVE-2019-1182, CVE-2019-1222 and CVE-2019-1226.

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-20190819-01-windows-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Matebook, Magicbook series laptops

Running the affected Windows operating system

Follow the Microsoft security advisory to implement patch or workaround


Successful exploit may cause arbitrary code execution on the target system.


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

HWPSIRT-2019-08107,HWPSIRT-2019-08108,HWPSIRT-2019-08109 and HWPSIRT-2019-08110:

Base Score: 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 9.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


HWPSIRT-2019-08107,HWPSIRT-2019-08108,HWPSIRT-2019-08109 and HWPSIRT-2019-08110:

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

An attacker would need to send a specially crafted request to the target systems Remote Desktop Service via RDP.

Vulnerability details:

Microsoft released four security advisories to disclose four remote code execution vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop Services. An unauthenticated attacker connects to the target system using RDP and sends specially crafted requests to exploit the vulnerabilities. Successful exploit may cause arbitrary code execution on the target system.

The Microsoft security advisories are available at:

[1] https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1181

[2] https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1182

[3] https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1222

[4] https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1226


Follow the Microsoft security advisories to implement patch or workaround.

These vulnerabilities were disclosed by Microsoft.


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