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Security Advisory - Password Verification Vulnerability of Huawei Router

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20220628-01-2eda0853
  • Initial Release Date: Jun 28, 2022
  • Last Release Date: Jun 28, 2022

There is a password verification vulnerability in WS7200-10.Attackers on the LAN may use brute force cracking to obtain passwords, which may cause sensitive system information to be disclosed. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2022-16010)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2022-33735.

For products that have released software updates to fix this vulnerability, Huawei will release and update the Security Advisory at:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20220628-01-2eda0853-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

WS7200-10

11.0.2.13

2.1.0.202


Attackers may use brute force cracking to obtain passwords, which may cause sensitive system information to be disclosed.

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

Base Score: 5.3 (AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

Available on LAN only.

Vulnerability details:

There is a password verification vulnerability in WS7200-10.Attackers on the LAN may bypass the anti-brute-force-cracking mechanism and obtain passwords through brute force cracking, which may cause sensitive system information to be disclosed.

The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

Vulnerability information provided by Linfeng Xiao (@migraine-sudo) and Lingjuan Tang. Thanks to Linfeng Xiao (@migraine-sudo) and Lingjuan Tang for their attention to Huawei product vulnerabilities!

2022-06-28 V1.0 INITIAL

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