CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2016-6900 — Huawei Rh1288 V3 Server Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

The Intelligent Baseboard Management Controller (iBMC) in Huawei RH1288 V3 servers with software before V100R003C00SPC613; RH2288 V3 servers with software before V100R003C00SPC617; RH2288H V3 servers with software before V100R003C00SPC515; RH5885 V3 servers with software before V100R003C10SPC102; and XH620 V3, XH622 V3, and XH628 V3 servers with software before V100R003C00SPC610 allows local users to cause a denial of service (iBMC resource consumption) via unspecified vectors.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.0)
Published
2016-09-07
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-399

Affected products

  • huawei / rh1288_v3_server_firmware / v100r003c00
  • huawei / rh2288_v3_server_firmware / v100r003c00
  • huawei / rh2288h_v3_server_firmware / v100r003c00
  • huawei / xh620_v3_server_firmware / v100r003c00
  • huawei / xh622_v3_server_firmware / v100r003c00
  • huawei / xh628_v3_server_firmware / v100r003c00

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Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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