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Security Advisory - Information Leakage Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200219-01-leak
  • Initial Release Date: Feb 19, 2020
  • Last Release Date: Feb 19, 2020

There is an information leakage vulnerability in some Huawei products. In some special cases, an authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability because the software processes data improperly. Successful exploitation may lead to information leakage. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-04203)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1861.
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-20200219-01-leak-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

CloudEngine 12800

V200R001C00SPC600

Upgrade to V200R005C10SPC800

V200R001C00SPC700

V200R002C01

V200R002C50SPC800

V200R002C50SPC800PWE

V200R003C00SPC810

V200R003C00SPC810PWE

V200R005C00SPC600

V200R005C00SPC800

V200R005C00SPC800PWE

V200R005C10

V200R005C10SPC800

V200R005C10SPC300


Successful exploitation may lead to information leakage.

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

Base Score: 4.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Temporal Score: 4.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


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

Attackes can gain access to the affected device.

Vulnerability details:  

There is an information leakage vulnerability in some Huawei products. In some special cases, an authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability because the software processes data improperly. Successful exploitation may lead to information leakage.

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.


2020-02-19 V1.0 INITIAL


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