CVE-2017-17162 Denial of service in Secospace USG6600, Secospace USG6600, Secospace USG6600, USG9500, USG9500, USG9500
A local authenticated attacker can cause a memory leak leading to system exceptions and denial of service on Huawei firewalls.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-17162?
CVE-2017-17162 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Secospace Usg6600 Firmware, published on 15 Feb 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Huawei Secospace USG6600 V500R001C30SPC100, Secospace USG6600 V500R001C30SPC200, Secospace USG6600 V500R001C30SPC300, USG9500 V500R001C30SPC100, USG9500 V500R001C30SPC200, USG9500 V500R001C30SPC300 have a memory leak vulnerability due to memory don't be released when an local authenticated attacker execute special commands many times. An attacker could exploit it to cause memory leak, which may further lead to system exceptions.
Weakness: CWE-772
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17162?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Huawei Secospace Usg6600 Firmware, Huawei Usg9500 Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-17162?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-17162 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-17162 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17162 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Secospace Usg6600 Firmware
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g5jm-qrqq-cw8j.