Security Advisory - Lack of Signature Verification Vulnerability in Some Huawei APP
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170816-01-app
- Initial Release Date: 2017-08-16
- Last Release Date: 2017-08-16
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8177.
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-20170816-01-app-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HiWallet |
Earlier than 5.0.3.100 versions |
5.0.3.100 |
Successful exploit this vulnerability attacker could lead to the APP is hijacking.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.9 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Temporal Score: 5.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker has access to transmission network.
Vulnerability details:
Some Huawei APP do not support APK signature verification. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to hijack the APK and upload modified APK. Successful exploit could lead to the APP is hijacking.
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. Huawei would like to thank Zhang Qing for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-08-16 V1.0 INITIAL
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