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Security Advisory - Command Injection Vulnerability in the NetEco

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20170531-01-neteco
  • Initial Release Date: May 31, 2017
  • Last Release Date: May 31, 2017

Huawei iManager NetEco has a command injection vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An authenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send malicious packets to a target device. Successful exploit could enable a low privileged user to execute commands that a high privileged user could execute, causing the files to be tampered with or deleted. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03128)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8133. 

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-20170531-01-neteco-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

iManager NetEco

V600R008C00

Upgrade to V600R008C10SPC210

V600R008C10

V600R008C10SPC210

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to enable a low privileged user to execute commands that a high privileged user could execute, causing the files to be tampered with or deleted.

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

Base Score: 8.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 8.2 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

1. The attacker obtains the password and logs in to the iManager NetEco.

Vulnerability details:

An authenticated, remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send malicious packets to a target device. Successful exploit could enable a low privileged user to execute commands that a high privileged user could execute, causing the files to be tampered with or deleted.

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.
2017-05-31 V1.0 INITIAL

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