Security Advisory - Improper Permission Control Vulnerability in Huawei Vmall Alert Service
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170125-01-vmall
- Initial Release Date: Jan 25, 2017
- Last Release Date: Jan 25, 2017
The AlarmService component in Huawei Vmall has no control over calling permissions, allowing any third party to call. An attacker can construct a malicious application to call it. Consequently, alert music will be played suddenly, compromising user experience. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-11067)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2694.
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-20170125-01-vmall-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HwVmall |
Earlier than HwVmall 1.5.2.0 versions |
HwVmall |
An attacker can construct a malicious application to call it. Consequently, alert music will be played suddenly, compromising user experience.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 3.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Temporal Score: 3.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
1.The attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
The AlarmService component in Huawei Vmall has no control over calling permissions, allowing any third party to call. An attacker can construct a malicious application to call it. Consequently, alert music will be played suddenly, compromising user experience.
Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.
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.
2017-01-25 V1.0 INITIAL
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