Security Advisory - FRP Bypass Vulnerability on Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180912-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2018-09-12
- Last Release Date: 2018-09-12
There is a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass vulnerability on some Huawei smartphones. The system does not sufficiently verify the permission, an attacker uses a data cable to connect the smartphone to the computer and then perform some specific operations. Successful exploit could allow the attacker bypass the FRP protection to access the system setting page. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-04128)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7991.
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-20180912-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate10 |
Versions earlier before ALP-AL00B 8.0.0.110(C00) |
ALP-AL00B 8.0.0.110(C00) |
Successful exploit could allow the attacker bypass the FRP protection to access the system setting page.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 2.4 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Temporal Score: 2.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker uses a data cable to connect the smartphone to the computer.
Vulnerability details:
The system does not sufficiently verify the permission, an attacker uses a data cable to connect the smartphone to the computer and then perform some specific operations. Successful exploit could allow the attacker bypass the FRP protection to access the system setting page.
Smart phones that support 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 Rongwei Ji. Huawei would like to thank Rongwei Ji for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2018-09-12 V1.0 INITIAL
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