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Security Advisory - Denial of Service Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200527-01-dos
  • Initial Release Date: May 27, 2020
  • Last Release Date: Nov 11, 2020

There is a denial of service vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to improper memory management, memory leakage may occur in some special cases. Attackers can perform a series of operations to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit may cause a denial of service. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-02210)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1870.

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-20200527-01-dos-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

CloudEngine 12800

V200R019C00SPC800

V200R019C10SPC800

CloudEngine 5800

V200R019C00SPC800

V200R019C10SPC800

CloudEngine 6800

V200R005C20SPC800

V200R019C10SPC800

V200R019C00SPC800

CloudEngine 7800

V200R019C00SPC800

V200R019C10SPC800

NE40E

V800R011C00SPC200

V800R011SPH037

V800R011C00SPC300

V800R012C00SPC300

V800R011C10SPC100

V800R011SPH037

NE40E-F

V800R011C00SPC200

V800R011SPH036

V800R011C10SPC100

NE40E-M

V800R011C00SPC200

V800R011SPH036

V800R011C10SPC100

Successful exploit may cause a denial of service. 

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

Base Score: 5.9 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Temporal Score: 5.5 (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 network.

Vulnerability details:

There is a denial of service vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to improper memory management, memory leakage may occur in some special cases. Attackers can perform a series of operations to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit may cause a denial of service. 


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.


2020-11-11 V1.3 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2020-06-24 V1.2 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section; Updated the information in "Summary", "Impact" and "Technical Details";

2020-06-10 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2020-05-27 V1.0 INITIAL

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