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Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20180613-01-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: Jun 13, 2018
  • Last Release Date: Jun 13, 2018

Some Huawei smart phones has a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, local attacker can crafts malformed packets after tricking a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege of the smart phones. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-08053)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17172.

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-20180613-01-smartphone-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

LYO-L21

LYO-L21C479B107

LYO-L21C479B108

LYO-L21C577B126

LYO-L21C577B130



By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege of the smart phones.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 7.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 6.8 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

An attacker should trick a user to install a malicious application.

Vulnerability details:

Some Huawei smart phones has a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, local attacker can crafts malformed packets after tricking a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege of the smart phones.

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 internal tester.

2018-06-13 V1.0 INITIAL

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