Security Advisory - Permission Control Vulnerability in Some Huawei Switches
- SA No:huawei-sa-20160217-01-switch
- Initial Release Date: 2016-02-17
- Last Release Date: 2016-02-17
Some Huawei switches have a permission control vulnerability. If a switch enables Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) for permission control and user permissions are not appropriate, AAA users may obtain the virtual type terminal (VTY) access permission, resulting in privilege escalation. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2015-08048)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-2404.
Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160217-01-switch-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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S5700/ S6700/ S7700/ S9700 |
V200R001C00SPC300 |
Upgrade to V200R005C00SPC500+V200R005SPH009 |
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V200R002C00SPC100 |
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V200R003C00SPC300 |
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V200R005C00SPC500 |
V200R005SPH009 |
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V200R006C00 |
Upgrade to |
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S12700 |
V200R005C00SPC500 |
V200R005SPH009 |
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V200R006C00 |
Upgrade to |
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ACU2 |
V200R005C00SPC500 |
Upgrade to |
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V200R006C00 |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 6.0 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Temporal Score: 5.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
AAA is enabled on the switch, and the administrator incorrectly assigns user permissions;
2. Attacking procedure:
If AAA is enabled for permission control and user permissions are inappropriate, the attacker can use an AAA account to obtain VTY access permissions, resulting in privilege escalation.
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.
2016-02-17 V1.0 INITIAL
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