Security Advisory - Denial of Service Vulnerability in some Huawei Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20191204-03-dos
- Initial Release Date: Dec 04, 2019
- Last Release Date: Jan 22, 2020
Some Huawei products have a DoS vulnerability. An attacker of a neighboring device sends a large number of specific packets. As a result, a memory leak occurs after the device uses the specific packet. As a result, the attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause DoS attacks on the target device. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-08037)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5248.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-20191204-03-dos-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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CloudEngine 12800 |
V200R001C00SPC700 |
Upgrade to V200R005C10SPC800 |
| V200R001C00SPC600 | ||
| V200R001C00SPC700 |
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| V200R002C01 | ||
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V200R002C50SPC800 |
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V200R002C50SPC800PWE |
An attacker may exploit the vulnerability to cause the target device DOS attack.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.3 (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Overall Score: 4.9
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker gains the access of the affected products network and constructs specific packet.
Vulnerability details:
Some Huawei products have a DoS vulnerability. An attacker of a neighboring device sends a large number of specific packets. As a result, a memory leak occurs after the device uses the specific packet. As a result, the attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause DoS attacks on the target device.
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.
2020-04-01 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;
2020-01-22 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;
2019-12-04 V1.0 INITIAL
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