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Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200401-01-overflow
  • Initial Release Date: Apr 01, 2020
  • Last Release Date: Apr 01, 2020

There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in some Huawei products. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to perform remote code execution on the affected products when the affected product functions as an optical line terminal (OLT). (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-09333)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9067.

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-20200401-01-overflow-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

SmartAX MA5600T

V800R013C10

Upgrade the version to V800R017C10SPH229 or later.

V800R015C00

Upgrade the version to V800R017C10SPH229 or later.

V800R015C10

Upgrade the version to V800R017C10SPH229 or later.

V800R017C00

Upgrade the version to V800R017C10SPH229 or later.

V800R017C10

Upgrade the version to V800R017C10SPH229 or later.

V800R018C00

Upgrade the version to V800R018C00SPH207 or later.

V800R018C10

Upgrade the version to V800R018C10SPH212 or later.

SmartAX MA5800

V100R017C00

Upgrade the version to V100R019C12SPH208 or later.

V100R017C10

V100R018C00

V100R018C10

Upgrade the version to V100R018C10SPH116 or the global version V100R019C12SPH208 or later.

V100R019C10

Upgrade the version to V100R019C12SPH208 or later.

SmartAX EA5800

V100R018C00

Upgrade the version to V100R019C10SPH208 or later.

V100R018C10

Upgrade the version to V100R018C10SPH116 or the global version V100R019C10SPH208 or later.

V100R019C10

Upgrade the version to V100R019C10SPH208 or later.


Successful exploit may cause remote code execution on the affected products.

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

Base Score: 8.0 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 7.4 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


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

1. The affected device functions as an OLT.

Vulnerability details:

There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in some Huawei products. The vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to perform remote code execution on the affected products when the affected product functions as an OLT.


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.


2020-04-01 V1.0 INITIAL


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