Security Advisory- BootRom Menu and Boot Menu Vulnerabilities on Huawei Campus Switches

By exploiting the vulnerability, attackers can control or compromise the victim device.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).

     1. HWPSIRT-2014-0315

Base Score: 5.4(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Temporal Score: 4.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

2. HWPSIRT-2014-0316

Base Score: 5.4(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Temporal Score: 4.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

3. HWPSIRT-2014-0317

Base Score: 5.4(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Temporal Score: 4.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

4. HWPSIRT-2014-0318

Base Score: 4.9(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Temporal Score: 4.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:

(1)  The attackers can log in to the device via the console or out-of-band management port.

(2)  For HWPSIRT-2014-0318 the attackers must also know the password of the Boot Menu.

2. Attacking procedure:

Access the BootRom or Boot Menu and exploit the vulnerabilities to control or compromise the victim device.

Upgrading version and version status:

Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades, or obtain them through Huawei worldwide website at http://support.huawei.com/enterprise/. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/security/psirt/report-vulnerabilities/index.htm.

This vulnerability is reported by Huawei’s internal security test team. Huawei PSIRT is not aware of any public announcements or malicious use of the vulnerability described in this advisory. 

For security problems about Huawei products and solutions, please contact PSIRT@huawei.com.

For general problems about Huawei products and solutions, please directly contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the configuration or technical assistance.

2014-05-07 V1.0 INITIAL

2014-07-09 V1.1 UPDATED add CVE-ID information. 

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