Security Advisory - Path Traversal Vulnerability in Some Huawei Home Gateway Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180502-01-gateway
- Initial Release Date: 2018-05-02
- Last Release Date: 2018-05-02
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2018-7933.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180502-01-gateway-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HiRouter-CD20 |
The versions before HiRouter-CD20-10 1.9.6 |
HiRouter-CD20-10 1.9.6 |
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WS5200 |
The versions before WS5200-10 1.9.6 |
Upgrade to WS5200-10 1.9.6 |
Base Score: 6.1 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L)
Temporal Score: 5.7 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker tricks a user into installing a plugin on the device.
Vulnerability details:
There is a path traversal vulnerability on some Huawei home gateway products. Due to the lack of validation while these home gateway products install APK plugins, an attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious APK plugin, and plugin can overwrite arbitrary file of devices. Successful exploit may result in arbitrary code execution or privilege escalation.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
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