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Security Advisory-Authority Control Vulnerability in Quidway Switches

  • SA No:Huawei-SA-20150121-01-Quidway Switches
  • Initial Release Date: Jan 21, 2015
  • Last Release Date: Mar 20, 2015

Huawei Quidway switches have the authority control vulnerability in access authentication, which may be exploited by attackers to obtain higher access permissions. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2014-11119)

This Vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2015-1460.

Currently, official fixes are available.

Product Name

Affected Version

Solved version

Quidway S2350

V200R003C00SPC300

V200R005C00SPC300

Quidway S2750

V200R003C00SPC300

V200R005C00SPC300

Quidway S5300

V200R003C00SPC300

V200R005C00SPC300

Quidway S5700

V200R003C00SPC300

V200R005C00SPC300

Quidway S6300

V200R003C00SPC300

V200R005C00SPC300

Quidway S6700

V200R003C00SPC300

V200R005C00SPC300

Quidway S7700

V200R003C00SPC300

V200R003C00SPC500

V200R005C00SPC300

Quidway S9300

Quidway S9300E

V200R003C00SPC300

V200R003C00SPC500

V200R005C00SPC300

Quidway S9700

V200R003C00SPC300

V200R003C00SPC500

V200R005C00SPC300


Attackers may exploit this vulnerability to obtain higher access permissions.


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

Base Score: 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

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

Overall Score: 4.1

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

  1. The attacker can access the network.

Vulnerability details:

During access authentication, Huawei Quidway switches insufficiently process specific packets, resulting in the authority control vulnerability. Attackers may exploit this vulnerability to obtain higher access permissions. 


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/security/psirt/report-vulnerabilities/index.htm.


This vulnerability is reported by Huawei internal tester. 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 contactPSIRT@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.


2015-3-20 V1.2 UPDATED Summary

2015-1-23 V1.1 UPDATED Solved version

2015-1-21 V1.0 INITIAL

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