Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170209-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2017-02-09
- Last Release Date: 2017-02-09
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2727.
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-20170209-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Huawei P9 |
Versions earlier before EVA-AL00C00B365 |
EVA-AL00C00B365 |
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Versions earlier before EVA-AL10C00B365 |
EVA-AL10C00B365 |
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Versions earlier before EVA-CL00C92B365 |
EVA-CL00C92B365 |
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Versions earlier before EVA-DL00C17B365 |
EVA-DL00C17B365 |
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Versions earlier before EVA-TL00C01B365 |
EVA-TL00C01B365 |
[1] Smart phones will receive a system update prompt. The vulnerabilities will be fixed after users install the update.
Successful exploit could allow the attacker operate part function of the phone.
Base Score: 2.4 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Temporal Score: 2.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
An attacker got phone because user lost it or the phone was stolen.
Vulnerability details:
An unauthenticated attacker can bypass phone activation to user management page of the phone and create a new user. Successful exploit could allow the attacker operate part function of the phone.
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.
2017-02-09 V1.0 INITIAL
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