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Security Advisory - Information leakage Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200205-01-leakage
  • Initial Release Date: 2020-02-05
  • Last Release Date: 2020-02-05

There is an information leakage vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to improper processing of some data, a local authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability through a series of operations. Successful exploitation may cause information leakage.(Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-12399)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1857.

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-20200205-01-leakage-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

NIP6800

V500R001C30

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC300

V500R001C60SPC500

V500R005C00SPC100

Secospace USG6600

V500R001C30SPC200

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC300

V500R001C30SPC600

V500R001C60SPC500

V500R005C00SPC100

USG9500

V500R001C30SPC200

Upgrade to V500R005C20SPC300

V500R001C30SPC600

V500R001C60SPC500

V500R005C00SPC100


Successful exploitation may cause information leakage.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring 

system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

Attackers can gain access to the device.

Vulnerability details:

There is an information leakage vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to improper processing of some data, a local authenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability through a series of operations. Successful exploitation may cause 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.


Huawei adheres to protecting the ultimate interests of users with best efforts and the principle of responsible disclosure and deal with product security issues through our response mechanism.

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To report a security vulnerability in Huawei products and solutions, please send it to PSIRT@huawei.com. For details, please visit http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.

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