Security Advisory - Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability in Bastet of Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170802-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2017-08-02
- Last Release Date: 2017-08-03
The Bastet of some Huawei mobile phones has an insufficient input validation vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. The APP can modify specific parameter to cause system reboot. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-05190)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8175.
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-20170802-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Vicky-AL00A |
Earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B167 versions |
Upgrade to Vicky-AL00AC00B167 |
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Victoria-AL00A |
Earlier than Victoria-AL00AC00B167 versions |
Upgrade to Victoria-AL00AC00B167 |
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Warsaw-AL00 |
Earlier than Warsaw-AL00C00B191 versions |
Upgrade to Warsaw-AL00C00B191 |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious APP.
Vulnerability details:
The Bastet of some Huawei mobile phones has an insufficient input validation vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker may trick a user into installing a malicious APP. The APP can modify specific parameter to cause system reboot.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by security researcher Zhang Qing and Guangdong Bai of Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) . Huawei would like to thank Zhang Qing and Guangdong Bai for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-08-03 V1.1 UPDATED Updated Vulnerability Source
2017-08-02 V1.0 INITIAL
None
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