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Security Advisory - Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability in the FusionInsight

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20160617-01-fusioninsight
  • Initial Release Date: 2016-06-17
  • Last Release Date: 2016-08-24

The FusionInsight has an insufficient input validation vulnerability. An attacker may exploit it to gain the root privilege of the Linux system where the software resides and control the operating system cluster. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-06010)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5723.

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-20160617-01-fusioninsight-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

FusionInsight HD

V100R002C30

Upgrade to V100R002C60SPC200

V100R002C50

Successful exploit could allow the attacker to gain the root privilege of the Linux system where the software resides and control the operating system cluster.

Base Score: 6.6 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Temporal Score: 5.4 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:

The attacker could log in to the Linux operating system where the FusionInsight is deployed as an omm user.

2. Attacking procedure:

The attacker may exploit it to gain the root privilege of the Linux system where the software resides and control the operating system cluster.

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.

2016-08-24 V1.1 UPDATED Added CVE ID

2016-06-17 V1.0 INITIAL

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