Security Advisory - FRP Bypass Vulnerability on Several Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20181114-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Nov 14, 2018
- Last Release Date: Nov 14, 2018
There is a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass vulnerability on several smartphones. The system does not sufficiently verify the permission, an attacker uses a data cable to connect the smartphone to another smartphone and then perform a series of specific operations. Successful exploit could allow the attacker bypass the FRP protection. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-07001)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7988.
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-20181114-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Huawei nova 2 Plus |
The versions before 8.0.0.350(C00) |
Barca-AL00 8.0.0.350(C00) |
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Huawei Mate9 Pro |
The versions before 8.0.0.363(C00) |
LON-AL00B 8.0.0.363(C00) |
Successful exploit could allow the attacker bypass the FRP protection.
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)
Overall Score: 4.3
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker uses a data cable to connect the smartphone to another smartphone
Vulnerability details:
The system does not sufficiently verify the permission, an attacker uses a data cable to connect the smartphone to another smartphone and then perform a series of specific operations. Successful exploit could allow the attacker bypass the FRP protection.
Smart phones that support 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.
2018-11-14 V1.0 INITIAL
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