The CF cards on some Huawei switches and ARs contain some sensitive information in plaintext. Once an attacker gets such a CF card, it may result in the leak of sensitive information (HWPSIRT-2015-07048).
Currently, official fixes are available.
Product Name
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Affected Version
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Resolved Product and Version
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S7700/S9700/S9300
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V200R001C00SPC300
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Upgrade to V200R07C00SPC500
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V200R002C00SPC100
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V200R003C00SPC500
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V200R005C00SPC300
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V200R006C00SPC300
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V200R006C00SPC500
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AR200/ AR1200/AR2200/AR3200
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V200R003C00SPC100
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Upgrade to V200R005C20SPC200
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V200R003C00SPC200
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V200R003C01SPC100
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V200R003C01SPC200
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V200R003C01SPC300
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V200R003C01SPC500
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V200R003C01SPC600
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V200R003C01SPC800
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V200R003C01SPC900
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Once the attacker gets such a CF card, it may result in the leak of sensitive information.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (
http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score:2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 1.7 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
The attacker must have physical access to the equipment.
2. Attacking procedure:
The attacker gets physical access to the equipment, takes away the CF card, and exports the files from it.
This vulnerability was reported privately to Huawei by Mickey Shkatov from Intel Advanced Threat Research Team and Jesse Michael from Intel. Huawei expresses our appreciation for Mickey Shkatov’s and Jesse Michael’s coordinated vulnerability disclosure with Huawei.
Huawei PSIRT is not aware of any malicious use of the vulnerabilities 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.
2015-08-19 V1.1 UPDATED Update the Software Versions and Fixes.
2015-08-05 V1.0 INITIAL
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