Security Advisory - Phone Activation Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170118-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jan 18, 2017
- Last Release Date: Jan 18, 2017
There is a phone activation bypass vulnerability in Huawei smartphones. Successful exploit could allow an unauthenticated attacker to bypass phone activation to settings page of the phone. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-12004)
This vulnerability has been assigned CVE ID: CVE-2017-2705.
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-20170118-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Huawei P9 |
Versions earlier before EVA-AL10C00B365 |
EVA-AL10C00B365 |
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Versions earlier before EVA-AL00C00B365 |
EVA-AL00C00B365 |
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Versions earlier before EVA-CL00C92B365 |
EVA-CL00C92B365 |
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Versions earlier before EVA-DL00C17B365 |
EVA-DL00C17B365 |
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Versions earlier before EVA-TL00C01B365 |
EVA-TL00C01B365 |
Successful exploit could allow an unauthenticated attacker to bypass phone activation to settings page of the phone.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 2.4 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Temporal Score: 2.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The phone receives a system update message.
Vulnerability details:
Successful exploit could allow an unauthenticated attacker to bypass phone activation to settings page of the phone.
Smart phones that support automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2017-01-18 V1.0 INITIAL
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