# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 15 Feb 2018
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-g5jm-qrqq-cw8j

## 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 (Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17162?

It affects 2 products.


Products: 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.

## 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

- [CVE-2017-17163](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-17163/): Memory corruption in Secospace USG6600 (medium 5.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2017-17162 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17162 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Huawei Secospace Usg6600 Firmware. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-17162/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-17162/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17162
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17162
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17162

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