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Improper Input Validation

CVE-2017-17318

Severity Medium
Score 6.5/10

Summary

Huawei MBB (Mobile Broadband) products E5771h-937 with the versions before E5771h-937TCPU-V200R001B328D62SP00C1133 and the versions before E5771h-937TCPU-V200R001B329D05SP00C1308 have a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. When an attacker accessing device sends special http request to device, the webserver process will try to apply too much memory which can cause the device to become unable to respond. An attacker can launch a DoS attack by exploiting this vulnerability.

  • LOW
  • ADJACENT_NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation

The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published