Security Advisory - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20181101-01-bypass
- Initial Release Date: Nov 01, 2018
- Last Release Date: Nov 01, 2018
Some Huawei smartphones have an authentication bypass vulnerability. When the attacker obtains the user's smartphone, the vulnerability can be used to replace the start-up program so that the attacker can obtain the information in the smartphone and achieve the purpose of controlling the smartphone. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-02106)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7910.
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-20181101-01-bypass-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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ALP-AL00B |
8.0.0.118D(C00) |
Upgrade to 8.1.0.336(C00) |
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ALP-TL00B |
8.0.0.118D(C01) |
Upgrade to 8.0.0.336(C01) |
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BLA-AL00B |
8.0.0.118D(C00) |
Upgrade to 8.1.0.336(C00) |
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BLA-L09C |
8.0.0.127(C432) |
Upgrade to BLA-L09 8.0.0.148(C432) |
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8.0.0.128(C432) |
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8.0.0.137(C432) |
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BLA-L29C |
8.0.0.129(C432) |
Upgrade to BLA-L29 8.0.0.148(C432) |
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8.0.0.137(C432) |
Successful exploit could make the attacker control the vulnerable phone.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.8 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Overall Score: 6.3
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker has got the smartphone.
Vulnerability details:
Some Huawei smartphones have an authentication bypass vulnerability. When the attacker obtains the user's smartphone, the vulnerability can be used to replace the start-up program so that the attacker can obtain the information in the smartphone and achieve the purpose of controlling the smartphone.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was found and reported to Huawei PSIRT by François Poucheret and Kévin Szkudłapski from Security team of NXP Company. Huawei would like to thank them for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2018-11-01 V1.0 INITIAL
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