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Security Advisory - Improper Credentials Management Vulnerability in Some Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200102-01-credential
  • Initial Release Date: 2020-01-02
  • Last Release Date: 2020-01-22

There is an improper credentials management vulnerability in some products. The software does not properly manage certain credential, successful exploit could cause information disclosure or damage, and impact the confidentiality or integrity. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-12263)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1871.

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-20200102-01-credential-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

USG9500

V500R001C30SPC100

Upgrade to V500R005C20

V500R001C30SPC200

V500R001C30SPC600

V500R001C60SPC500

V500R005C00SPC100

V500R005C00SPC200



Successful exploit could cause information disclosure or damage, and impact the confidentiality or integrity.


The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Temporal Score: 6.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

Overall Score: 6.0


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

The attacker can access the device.

Vulnerability details:

The software does not properly manage certain credential, successful exploit could cause information disclosure or damage, and impact the confidentiality or integrity.


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.


2020-01-22 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2020-01-02 V1.0 INITIAL


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