Security Advisory - Exposed System Interface Vulnerability on Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170329-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Mar 29, 2017
- Last Release Date: Mar 29, 2017
There is a exposed system interface vulnerability on smart phones. The software provides a system interface for interaction with external applications, but calling the interface is not properly restricted. An attacker could trick the user into installing a malicious application to call the interface and modify the system properties. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03004)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2735.
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-20170329-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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TIT-AL00 |
Versions earlier before TIT-AL00C583B214 |
TIT-AL00C583B214 |
An attacker could trick the user into installing a malicious application to call the interface and modify the system properties.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 7.1 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.6 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the phone.
Vulnerability details:
The software provides a system interface for interaction with external applications, but calling the interface is not properly restricted. An attacker could trick the user into installing a malicious application to call the interface and modify the system properties.
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.
2017-03-29 V1.0 INITIAL
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