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Security Advisory - Lock-screen Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20181105-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date:2018-11-05
- Last Release Date:2018-11-05
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2018-7925.
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-20181105-01-smartphone-en
Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
Emily-AL00A |
The versions before 8.1.0.171(C00) |
8.1.0.171(C00) |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 3.5 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
Temporal Score: 3.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Overall Score: 3.3
Attacker gets the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
There is a lock-screen bypass vulnerability in radio module of some Huawei smartphones. An unauthenticated attacker could start third-part input method APP through certain operations to bypass lock-screen by exploit this vulnerability.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
2018-11-05 V1.0 INITIAL
None
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