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Security Advisory - FRP Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei Smart Phones

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20180905-01-frpbypass
  • Initial Release Date: 2018-09-05
  • Last Release Date: 2018-09-05

There is Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass security vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. When re-configuring the mobile phone using the factory reset protection (FRP) function, an attacker can disable the boot wizard by enable the talkback function. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-12057)
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2018-7939.
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-20180905-01-frpbypass-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

G9 Lite

The versions before VNS-L53C605B120CUSTC605D103

Upgrade to VNS-L53C605B120CUSTC605D103

Honor 5A

The versions before CAM-L03C605B143CUSTC605D008

CAM-L03C605B143CUSTC605D008

The versions before CAM-L21C10B145

CAM-L21C10B145

The versions before CAM-L21C185B156

CAM-L21C185B156

The versions before CAM-L21C223B133

CAM-L21C223B133

The versions before CAM-L21C432B210

CAM-L21C432B210

The versions before CAM-L21C464B170

CAM-L21C464B170

The versions before CAM-L21C636B245

CAM-L21C636B245

Honor 6X

The versions before Berlin-L21C10B372

Berlin-L21C10B372

The versions before Berlin-L21C185B363

Berlin-L21C185B363

The versions before Berlin-L21C464B137

Berlin-L21C464B137

The versions before Berlin-L23C605B161

Berlin-L23C605B161

Honor 8

The versions before FRD-L09C10B387

FRD-L09C10B387

The versions before FRD-L09C185B387

FRD-L09C185B387

The versions before FRD-L09C432B398

FRD-L09C432B398

The versions before FRD-L09C636B387

FRD-L09C636B387

The versions before FRD-L19C10B387

FRD-L19C10B387

The versions before FRD-L19C432B399

FRD-L19C432B399

The versions before FRD-L19C636B387

FRD-L19C636B387



An attacker can exploit this vulnerability and cause the FRP bypass.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.6 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
Attacker gets the smart phone device.
Vulnerability details:
There is FRP bypass security vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. When re-configuring the mobile phone using the factory reset protection (FRP) function, an attacker can disable the boot wizard by enable the talkback function. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed.

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.

2018-09-05 V1.0 INITIAL

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