Security Advisory - Token Transmission in Plaintext Vulnerability in OceanStor Products

The OceanStor 5300 V3/5500 V3/5600 V3/5800 V3/6800 V3/ 18800 V3/18500 V3 are mid-range and high-end storage products newly developed by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd (Huawei for short). This series is ideal for processing existing storage applications and follows the future development trend of storage technologies. It meets medium- and large-sized enterprises’ storage requirements for mass data storage, speed data access, high availability, high utilization, energy saving, and ease-of-use.

There is vulnerability in those products that the session token are included in HTTP header in plaintext, which allows attackers to launch replay attacks. It can lead to information leak and damage the product’s integrity and availability. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-05137)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-5722

Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20160615-01-oceanstor