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Huawei enterprise and broadcast products have a crypto bug. Fix it now!

Huawei has rolled out security fixes for some enterprise and broadcast products to address a cryptography issue tracked as CVE-2017-17174.

Huawei has released security updates for some enterprise and broadcast products to address a cryptography issue that was discovered in late 2017.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-17174, is related to the implementation of an insecure encryption algorithm and could be exploited to power MiTM attack to decrypt a session key and recover the content of the entire session.

“There is a weak algorithm vulnerability in some Huawei products. A remote, unauthenticated attacker may capture traffic between clients and the affected products.” reads the security advisory published by Huawei.

“Due to the use of insecure encryption algorithm, the attacker may decrypt the session key by some cryptanalytic operations and the traffic between the server and the client. Successful exploit may cause information leak.”

The following Huawei products using RSA encryption in TLS are potentially vulnerable:

  • The RSE6500 Recording and Streaming Engine version V500R002C00. A high-performance, full-HD recording and streaming engine that supports live video multicast and mobile Video on Demand (VoD).
  • The SoftCo unified communications software version V200R003C20SPCb00;
  • The VP9660 video conferencing multipoint control units version V600R006C10;
  • Multiple versions of its eSpace U1981 IP telephony and enterprise communications universal SIP gateway.

Huawei rated the vulnerability as a 5.3 (medium) because it is not easy to exploit, the company has released software updates to address the flaw for all of its solution except for the unified communications software SoftCo that has been deprecated.

Every flaw discovered in products of Chinese and Russia firm trigger the alarm of governments that are already banning their solution from critical infrastructure and government offices.

In May, the Pentagon ordered retail outlets on US military bases to stop selling Huawei and ZTE products due to unacceptable security risk they pose.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs – CVE-2017-17174,  encryption)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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