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Security Advisory - SQL Injection Vulnerability in Policy Center Product

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20160325-01-policycenter
  • Initial Release Date: 2016-03-25
  • Last Release Date: 2016-03-25

Huawei Policy Center dynamically allocates network resources in a unified manner, enabling the network to provide services with more agility.

The Policy Center has a SQL injection vulnerability. After logging in to the target device, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by grafting malicious SQL statements to tamper with the system databases and gain administrative privileges. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-12023)

This Vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-3675.

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-20160325-01-policycenter-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Policy Center

V100R003C00

V100R003C10SPC020

V100R003C10

An attacker could tamper with the system databases and gain administrative privileges.

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

Base Score: 9.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Temporal Score: 7.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:

The attacker logs in to the system.

2. Attacking procedure:

After logging in to the target device, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by grafting malicious SQL statements when submitting parameters to tamper with the system databases and gain administrative privileges.

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.

This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.

2016-03-25 V1.0 INITIAL

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