Security Advisory - MITM Vulnerability in Huawei Themes App in Some Mobile Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170908-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Sep 08, 2017
- Last Release Date: Apr 03, 2018
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-8154.
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-20170908-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Honor 8 Lite |
The versions before Prague-L31C576B172 |
Prague-L31C576B172 |
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The versions before Prague-L31C530B160 |
Prague-L31C530B160 |
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The versions before Prague-L31C432B180 |
Prague-L31C432B180 |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.2 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)Temporal Score: 3.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker blocks and tampers with the communication data exchanged between two parties.
Vulnerability details:
The Themes App in some Huawei mobile phones uses the insecure HTTP protocol for theme download. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to tamper with downloaded themes.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by Erez Yalon of Checkmarx. Huawei would like to thank Erez Yalon for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2018-04-03 V1.1 UPDATE Update the affected product list
2017-09-08 V1.0 INITIAL
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