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Security Advisory - Two Vulnerabilities in Some Huawei Home Routers

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20191113-01-homerouter
  • Initial Release Date: Nov 13, 2019
  • Last Release Date: Jan 08, 2020

Some Huawei home routers have an input validation vulnerability. Due to input parameter is not correctly verified, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending special constructed packets to obtain files in the device and upload files to some directories. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-08045)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5268.

Some Huawei home routers have an improper authorization vulnerability. Due to improper authorization of certain programs, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute uploaded malicious files and escalate privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-08067)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5269.

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-20191113-01-homerouter-en



产品名称

版本号

修复版本号

CD10-10

10.0.2.2

Upgrade to 10.0.2.7

CD16-10

10.0.2.3

Upgrade to 10.0.2.5

CD17-10

9.0.3.3

10.0.2.5

CD18-10

9.0.2.23

10.0.2.5

HiRouter-CD15-10

9.0.2.3

10.0.2.5

HiRouter-CD20-10

9.0.3.9

10.0.2.6

HiRouter-CD21-16

9.0.3.9

10.0.2.5

HiRouter-CD30-10

10.0.2.8

Upgrade to 10.0.2.9

HiRouter-CD30-11

10.0.2.8

Upgrade to 10.0.2.9

HiRouter-H1-10

9.0.3.11

10.0.2.5

TC5200-10

10.0.2.3

Upgrade to 10.0.2.5

WS5100-10

9.0.3.11

10.0.2.7

WS5102-10

10.0.2.2

Upgrade to 10.0.2.7

WS5106-10

10.0.2.2

Upgrade to 10.0.2.7

WS5108-10

10.0.2.2

Upgrade to 10.0.2.7

WS5200-10

9.0.3.9

10.0.2.6

WS5200-11

10.0.2.3

Upgrade to 10.0.2.5

9.0.3.11

10.0.2.5

WS5280-10

9.0.3.22

10.0.2.6

WS5280-11

9.0.3.22

10.0.2.6

WS6500-10

10.0.2.3

Upgrade to 10.0.2.5

WS6500-11

10.0.2.2

Upgrade to 10.0.2.7

WS826-10

9.0.3.11

10.0.2.5

WS833-10

8.1.17.5

10.0.2.5

WS851-10

9.0.3.7

10.0.2.2

WS851-11

9.0.3.6

10.0.2.2

WS852-10

9.0.3.7

10.0.2.2



An attacker can exploit these two vulnerabilities to escalate privilege.

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

HWPSIRT-2019-08045: 

Base Score: 5.5 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L) 

Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C) 

HWPSIRT-2019-08067: 

Base Score: 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 7.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

HWPSIRT-2019-08045:

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

The attacker can gain access to the affected device.

Vulnerability details:

Some Huawei home routers have an input validation vulnerability. Due to input parameter is not correctly verified, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending special constructed packets to obtain files in the device and upload files to some directories.

HWPSIRT-2019-08067:

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

The attacker can gain access to the affected device.

Vulnerability details:

Some Huawei home routers have an improper authorization vulnerability. Due to improper authorization of certain programs, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute uploaded malicious files and escalate privilege.


The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

These two vulnerabilities were reported to Huawei PSIRT by Chaitin Security Research Lab of Chaitin Tech. Huawei would like to thank Chaitin Security Research Lab for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.

2020-01-08 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the affected version and fix version information

2019-11-20 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the affected version and fix version information

2019-11-13 V1.0 INITIAL

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