CVE-2020-1814 Race condition in NIP6800

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

An authenticated attacker can trigger a race condition leading to a dangling pointer dereference, causing service disruption on Huawei network security devices.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-1814?

CVE-2020-1814 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Nip6800 Firmware, published on 18 Feb 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Huawei NIP6800 versions V500R001C30, V500R001C60SPC500, and V500R005C00; Secospace USG6600 and USG9500 versions V500R001C30SPC200, V500R001C30SPC600, V500R001C60SPC500, and V500R005C00 have a Dangling pointer dereference vulnerability. An authenticated attacker may do some special operations in the affected products in some special scenarios to exploit the vulnerability. Due to improper race conditions of different operations, successful exploit will lead to Dangling pointer dereference, causing some service abnormal.

Weakness: CWE-362, CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-1814?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Huawei Nip6800 Firmware, Huawei Secospace Usg6600 Firmware, Huawei Usg9500 Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2020-1814?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-1814 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2020-1814 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1814 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Huawei Nip6800 Firmware vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-gvmv-7rg8-v686.

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