Security Advisory - Information Disclosure Vulnerability in AEE extension of MTK Platform
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170804-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Aug 04, 2017
- Last Release Date: Aug 04, 2017
There is an information disclosure vulnerability in AEE extension of MTK Platform used in Huawei smart phones. Due to improper privilege validation on specific processes, an attacker who tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information of the user. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-04028)
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-20170804-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Y6 Pro |
Version earlier than TIT-L01C576B120 |
TIT-L01C576B120 |
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information of the user.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
Due to improper privilege validation on specific processes, an attacker who tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information of the user.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by Mateusz Fruba of MWR InfoSecurity Poland. Huawei would like to thank Mateusz Fruba for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-08-04 V1.0 INITIAL
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