Security Advisory - Dangling Pointer Reference Vulnerability in Some Huawei Firewall Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200212-01-firewall
- Initial Release Date: Feb 12, 2020
- Last Release Date: Feb 12, 2020
There is a dangling pointer reference vulnerability in some Huawei firewall products. An authenticated attacker may do some special operations in the affected products in some special scenarios to exploit the vulnerability. Due to improper race conditions of different operations, successful exploit will lead to dangling pointer reference, causing some service abnormal. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-12414)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1814.
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-20200212-01-firewall-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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NIP6800 |
V500R001C30 |
Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC300 |
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V500R001C60SPC500 |
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V500R005C00 |
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Secospace USG6600 |
V500R001C30SPC200 |
Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC300 |
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V500R001C30SPC600 |
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V500R001C60SPC500 |
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V500R005C00 |
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USG9500 |
V500R001C30SPC200 |
Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC300 |
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V500R001C30SPC600 |
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V500R001C60SPC500 |
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V500R005C00 |
Successful exploit will lead to dangling pointer reference, causing some service abnormal.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.3 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
1. IPSEC function is enabled.
2. The attacker could gain access the affected network.
Vulnerability details:
An authenticated attacker may do some special operations in the affected products in some special scenarios to exploit the vulnerability. Due to improper race conditions of different operations, successful exploit will lead to dangling pointer reference, causing some service 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.
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