What is CVE-2017-17165?

CVE-2017-17165 is a high-severity vulnerability in Huawei Quidway S2700, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-02-15.

How severe is CVE-2017-17165?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Huawei Quidway S2700

CVE-2017-17165

IPv6 function in Huawei Quidway S2700 V200R003C00SPC300, Quidway S5300 V200R003C00SPC300, Quidway S5700 V200R003C00SPC300, S2300 V200R003C00, V200R003C00SPC300T, V200R005C00, V200R006C00, V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00, S2700 V200R005C00, V200R006C00, V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00, S5300 V200R003C00, V200R003C00SPC300T, V200R003C00SPC600, V200R003C02, V200R005C00, V200R005C01, V200R005C02, V200R005C03, V200R005C05, V200R006C00, V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00, S5700 V200R003C00, V200R003C00SPC316T, V200R003C00SPC600, V200R003C02, V200R005C00, V200R005C01, V200R005C02, V200R005C03, V200R006C00, V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00, S600-E V200R008C00, V200R009C00, S6300 V200R003C00, V200R005C00, V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00, S6700 V200R003C00, V200R005C00, V200R005C01, V200R005C02, V200R007C00, V200R008C00, V200R009C00 has an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker may send crafted malformed IPv6 packets to the affected products. Due to insufficient verification of the packets, successful exploit will cause device to reset.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.010 (59.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Huawei Quidway_s2700
Huawei Quidway_s2700_firmware — versions v200r003c00spc300
Huawei Quidway_s5300
Huawei Quidway_s5300_firmware — versions v200r003c00spc300
Huawei Quidway_s5700
Huawei Quidway_s5700_firmware — versions v200r003c00spc300
Huawei S2300
Huawei S2300_firmware — versions v200r003c00, v200r003c00spc300t, v200r005c00
Huawei S2700
Huawei S2700_firmware — versions v200r005c00, v200r006c00, v200r007c00

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

psirt@huawei.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-17165?: CVE-2017-17165 is a high-severity vulnerability in Huawei Quidway S2700, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2018-02-15.
How severe is CVE-2017-17165?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.