Huawei eSpace SRTP information disclosure

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A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Huawei eSpace. The affected element is an unknown function of the component SRTP. This manipulation causes information disclosure. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2018-7959. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Huawei eSpace (the affected version is unknown). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component SRTP. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

There is a short key vulnerability in Huawei eSpace product. An unauthenticated, remote attacker launches man-in-the-middle attack to intercept and decrypt the call information when the user enables SRTP to make a call. Successful exploitation may cause sensitive information leak.

The bug was discovered 11/14/2018. The weakness was presented 11/27/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at huawei.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-7959 since 03/09/2018. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 06/11/2023). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 13 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-127244 for similar entry. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Huawei

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• eSpace

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

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