Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-52718

Medium

Published: 28 December 2024

Published
28 December 2024
Modified
13 January 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0003 9.3th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-52718 is a medium-severity Unprotected Alternate Channel (CWE-420) vulnerability in Huawei Ws7206-10 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 6.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 9.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A connection hijacking vulnerability exists in some Huawei home routers. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause DoS or information leakage.(Vulnerability ID:HWPSIRT-2023-34408) This vulnerability has been assigned a (CVE)ID:CVE-2023-52718

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

huawei
pt9030-15 firmware
3.0.3.266
huawei
ws7206-10 firmware
11.0.5.19, 2.1.0.203
huawei
ws7290-15 firmware
3.0.3.266
huawei
ws8000-10 firmware
3.0.3.236
huawei
ws8001-10 firmware
3.0.3.242
huawei
ws8002-10 firmware
3.0.3.242
huawei
ws8500-10 firmware
3.0.3.235
huawei
ws8502-10 firmware
3.0.3.242
huawei
ws8700-10 firmware
3.0.3.251

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-420

Usage restrictions and authorization for remote access protect against unprotected alternate channels.

addresses: CWE-420

TSCM surveys detect and neutralize unprotected alternate channels introduced by surveillance equipment or modifications.

addresses: CWE-420

Removes or disables unprotected alternate I/O channels that could otherwise be used to bypass primary controls.

References