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Security Advisory - Command Injection Vulnerability in Huawei FusionAccess

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20161130-01-ldap
  • Initial Release Date: Nov 30, 2016
  • Last Release Date: Nov 30, 2016

There is a command injection vulnerability in Huawei FusionAccess due to the lack of input validation. A remote attacker with specific permission could inject an Lightweight Directory Access Protocol(LDAP) operation command into a specific input variable to obtain sensitive information from the database. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-06020)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8779.

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-20161130-01-ldap-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

FusionAccess

V100R005C10

Upgrade to V100R005C30SPC105

V100R005C20

Successful exploit could allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information from the database.

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

Base Score: 7.7 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N) Temporal Score: 7.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present: 1. The attacker logs in to the FusionAccess. Vulnerability details: Because of the lack of input validation, a remote attacker with specific permission could inject an LDAP operation command into a specific input variable to obtain sensitive information from the database.

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.
2016-11-30 V1.0 INITIAL

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