7.5
CWE
264
Advisory Published
Updated

CVE-2016-2404

First published: Sun Apr 02 2017(Updated: )

Huawei switches S5700, S6700, S7700, S9700 with software V200R001C00SPC300, V200R002C00SPC100, V200R003C00SPC300, V200R005C00SPC500, V200R006C00; S12700 with software V200R005C00SPC500, V200R006C00; ACU2 with software V200R005C00SPC500, V200R006C00 have a permission control vulnerability. If a switch enables Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) for permission control and user permissions are not appropriate, AAA users may obtain the virtual type terminal (VTY) access permission, resulting in privilege escalation.

Credit: psirt@huawei.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Huawei S5700 Firmware=v200r001c00spc300
Huawei S5700 Firmware=v200r002c00spc100
Huawei S5700 Firmware=v200r003c00spc300
Huawei S5700 Firmware=v200r005c00spc500
Huawei S5700 Firmware=v200r006c00
Huawei S5700
Huawei S6700 Firmware=v200r001c00spc300
Huawei S6700 Firmware=v200r002c00spc100
Huawei S6700 Firmware=v200r003c00spc300
Huawei S6700 Firmware=v200r005c00spc500
Huawei S6700 Firmware=v200r006c00
Huawei S6700
Huawei S7700 Firmware=v200r001c00spc300
Huawei S7700 Firmware=v200r002c00spc100
Huawei S7700 Firmware=v200r003c00spc300
Huawei S7700 Firmware=v200r005c00spc500
Huawei S7700 Firmware=v200r006c00
Huawei S7700
Huawei S9700 Firmware=v200r001c00spc300
Huawei S9700 Firmware=v200r002c00spc100
Huawei S9700 Firmware=v200r003c00spc300
Huawei S9700 Firmware=v200r005c00spc500
Huawei S9700 Firmware=v200r006c00
Huawei S9700
Huawei S12700 Firmware=v200r005c00spc500
Huawei S12700 Firmware=v200r006c00
Huawei S12700
Huawei Acu2 Firmware=v200r005c00spc500
Huawei Acu2 Firmware=v200r006c00
Huawei Acu2

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