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Security Advisory - Out of Bounds Read Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200415-01-oob
  • Initial Release Date: 2020-04-15
  • Last Release Date: 2020-04-15

There is a few bytes out-of-bounds read vulnerability in some Huawei products. The software reads data past the end of the intended buffer when parsing certain message, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted messages to the device. Successful exploit may cause service abnormal in specific scenario.(Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-12050)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9071. 

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-20200415-01-oob-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AR120-S

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPCa00

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR1200

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPC900PWE

V200R007C00SPCa00

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCb00PWE

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR1200-S

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR150

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPC900PWE

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCb00PWE

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR150-S

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR160

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPC900PWE

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCb00PWE

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR200

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPC900PWE

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCb00PWE

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR200-S

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR2200

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPC900PWE

V200R007C00SPCa00

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCb00PWE

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR2200-S

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR3200

V200R007C00

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPC900

V200R007C00SPC900PWE

V200R007C00SPCa00

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCb00PWE

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR3600

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPC900PWE

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCb00PWE

V200R007C00SPCc00

AR510

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

NetEngine16EX

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

SRG1300

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

SRG2300

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

SRG3300

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R009C00SPC500

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00


Successful exploit may cause service abnormal in specific scenario.


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

Base Score: 3.7 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Temporal Score: 3.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

Attackers can establish connections with affected devices to send malicious packets. 

Vulnerability details:

There is a few bytes out-of-bounds read vulnerability in some Huawei products. The software reads data past the end of the intended buffer when parsing certain message, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted messages to the device. Successful exploit may cause service abnormal in specific scenario.



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.


2020-04-15 V1.0 INITIAL


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