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Security Advisory - Improper Authentication Vulnerability in The FusionSphere OpenStack

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20170830-02-OpenStack
  • Initial Release Date: 2017-08-30
  • Last Release Date: 2017-11-10

FusionSphere OpenStack has an improper authentication vulnerability. Due to improper authentication on one port, an authenticated, remote attacker may exploit the vulnerability to execute more operations by send a crafted rest message. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-06002)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8194.

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-20170830-02-OpenStack-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

FusionSphere OpenStack

V100R006C00SPC102(NFV)

V100R006C10SPC100

Successful exploit could allow the attacker to execute more operations.


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

Base Score: 8.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 7.6 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

The attacker logs in to the device network.

Vulnerability details:

Due to improper authentication on one port, an authenticated, remote attacker may exploit the vulnerability to execute more operations by send a crafted rest message.

1. The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

2. Customers should obtain upgrades through Huawei consumer business official website (http://emui.huawei.com/cn/portal.php).

3. 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/index.htm

This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.

2017-11-10 V1.1 UPDATE Update the affected product list

2017-08-30 V1.0 INITIAL

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