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Security Advisory - Improper Authentication Vulnerability in Several Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200422-01-authentication
  • Initial Release Date: Apr 22, 2020
  • Last Release Date: Apr 22, 2020

Some Huawei products have an improper authentication vulnerability. Attackers need to perform some operations to exploit the vulnerability. Successful exploit may obtain certain permissions on the device. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-04035)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9068.

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-20200422-01-authentication-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

AR3200

V200R007C00SPC900

Upgrade to V200R007SPH026

V200R007C00SPCa00

V200R007C00SPCb00

V200R007C00SPCc00

V200R009C00SPC500

Upgrade to V200R009SPH021


Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain certain device permissions.


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

Base Score: 8.6 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H) 

Temporal Score: 8.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

1. The attacker can access the network where the affected device resides.

Vulnerability details:

Some Huawei products have an improper authentication vulnerability. Attackers need to perform some operations to exploit the vulnerability. Successful exploit may obtain certain permissions on the device.


For details about the workarounds, contact Huawei TAC.

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 by an external organization.


2020-04-22 V1.0 INITIAL


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