Huawei OceanStor 5300 V3, 5500 V3, 5600 V3, 5800 V3, 6800 V3, 18800 V3, and 18500 V3 before V300R003C10 sends the plaintext session token in the HTTP header, which allows remote attackers to conduct replay attacks and obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network.
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocean_stor_18500_v3 | Huawei | - (including) | - (including) |
| Ocean_stor_18800_v3 | Huawei | - (including) | - (including) |
There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:
Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:
Information exposures can occur in different ways:
It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.