Security Advisory - Information Exposure Vulnerability in Some Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180523-01-phone
- Initial Release Date: May 23, 2018
- Last Release Date: May 23, 2018
There is an information exposure vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. When the user's smart phone connects to the malicious device for charging, an unauthenticated attacker may activate some specific function by sending some specially crafted messages. Due to insufficient input validation of the messages, successful exploit may cause information exposure. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-09191)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17158.
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-20180523-01-phone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Berlin-L21HN |
The versions before Berlin-L21HNC185B381 |
Berlin-L21HNC185B381 |
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Prague-AL00A |
The versions before Prague-AL00AC00B223 |
Prague-AL00AC00B223 |
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Prague-AL00B |
The versions before Prague-AL00BC00B223 |
Prague-AL00BC00B223 |
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Prague-AL00C |
The versions before Prague-AL00CC00B223 |
Prague-AL00CC00B223 |
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Prague-L31 |
The versions before Prague-L31C432B208 |
Prague-L31C432B208 |
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Prague-TL00A |
The versions before Prague-TL00AC01B223 |
Prague-TL00AC01B223 |
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Prague-TL10A |
The versions before Prague-TL00AC01B223 |
Prague-TL10AC01B223 |
Successful exploit may cause information exposure.
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:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
1. The affected smart phone connects to the malicious changing device.
Vulnerability details:
When the user's smart phone connects to the malicious device for charging, an unauthenticated attacker may activate some specific function by sending some specially crafted messages. Due to insufficient input validation of the messages, successful exploit may cause information exposure.
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.
2018-05-23 V1.0 INITIAL
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