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Security Advisory - Hardcoded SSH Key Vulnerability in Some Huawei Storage Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20161017-01-storage
  • Initial Release Date: Oct 17, 2016
  • Last Release Date: Oct 20, 2016

Some Huawei storage products have a hardcoded SSH key vulnerability. Different nodes of the devices use SSH to encrypt communication data and authenticate each other based on public and private keys. Since the SSH public and private keys are hardcoded, an attacker may obtain the keys and log in to such a device through SSH. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-05005)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8754.
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-20161017-01-storage-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

OceanStor 5600 V3

V300R003C00

Upgrade to V300R003C10SPC100
The attacker can log in to the device through SSH. However, the attacker cannot launch remote attacks, because only a limited number of internal IP addresses can be used for communication between different nodes.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv2 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/).
Base Score: 5.8 (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) 
Temporal Score: 4.8 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
1. Prerequisite:
The attacker has obtained the public and private keys.
2. Attacking procedure:
The attacker uses the obtained public and private keys to log in to the device through SSH and intercept and interrupt communication between different nodes of the device.
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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 reported to Huawei PSIRT by Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca. Huawei would like to thank Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.

2016-10-20 V1.1 UPDATED Add the CVE-ID

2016-10-17 V1.0 INITIAL

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