Password decryption in Huawei products - CVE-2015-8085

 

Password decryption in Huawei products - CVE-2015-8085

Published: October 4, 2016 / Updated: January 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU734
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8085
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows remote authenticated administrators to access and decrypt valid user's passwords.
The weakness exists due to insufficient access control. By leveraging selection of a reversible encryption algorithm attackers can obtain confidential data.
Succesful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in password decryption.

Affected software

Huawei Quidway S5300
Huawei Quidway S9300
Huawei AR
Huawei S5700
Huawei S5300
Huawei S9300
Huawei S12700

How to mitigate CVE-2015-8085

Update Huawei AR to V200R007C00SPC100.
Update Huawei Quidway S9300 to V200R009C00.
Update Huawei S12700 to V200R008C00SPC500.
Update Huawei S9300, Quidway S5300, and S5300 to V200R007C00.
Update Huawei S5700 to V200R007C00SPC500.


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