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CVE-2017-17318 — Huawei E5771H-937 Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 6.5

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.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
6.5 (3.0)
Published
2018-04-30
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Affected products

  • huawei / e5771h-937_firmware

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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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