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Security Advisory - Resource Management Error Vulnerability in Huawei CloudEngine 1800V Product

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20201202-01-cloudengine
  • Initial Release Date: Dec 02, 2020
  • Last Release Date: Dec 02, 2020

CloudEngine 1800V product has a resource management error vulnerability. Remote unauthorized attackers could send specific types of messages to the device, resulting in the message received by the system can't be forwarded normally. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-86502)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9120.
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-20201202-01-cloudengine-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

CloudEngine 1800V

V100R019C10SPC500

V100R019C10SPC800


Successful exploit the vulnerability could cause the message received by the system to be unable to forward normally.

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

Base Score: 7.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Temporal Score: 7.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker could remotely access the affected device.
Vulnerability details:
CloudEngine 1800V product has a resource management error vulnerability. Remote unauthorized attackers could send specific types of messages to the device, resulting in the message received by the system can't be forwarded normally.

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.
2020-12-02 V1.0 INITIAL

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