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Security Advisory - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20171213-03-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: 2017-12-13
  • Last Release Date: 2017-12-13

Some Huawei smart phones have an authentication bypass vulnerability due to the improper design of a component. An attacker who get a user's smart phone can execute specific operation, and delete the fingerprint of the phone without authentication. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-10094)
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-17145.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171213-03-smartphone-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Honor V9 Play

The versions before Jimmy-AL00AC00B135

Jimmy-AL00AC00B135
Successful exploit could allow the attacker to delete the fingerprint of the phone.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.6 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker obtains a user's smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker who get a user's smart phone can execute specific operation, and delete the fingerprint of the phone without authentication.
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The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei smart phone user.
2017-12-13 V1.0 INITIAL

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