Security Advisory - Brute-force attack of Users' Safe Password in the Files APP in Huawei Mobile Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170425-01-files
- Initial Release Date: Apr 25, 2017
- Last Release Date: Apr 25, 2017
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2715.
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-20170425-01-files-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Files[1] |
7.1.1.309 and earlier versions |
Upgrade to 7.1.1.310[2] |
[1]Files is the smartphone APP
[2] For EMUI 3.X and 4.X smartphones
Successful exploitation this vulnerability, an attacker could access sensitive database information and may crack users' Safe passwords, leading to information leak.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.2 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 5.8 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
Attacker gets the database of Safe
Vulnerability details:
Due to the improper design of the Safe key database, an unauthorized attacker could access sensitive database information and may crack users' Safe passwords, leading to information leak.
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 ADLab of Venustech. Huawei would like to thank ADLab of Venustech for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-04-25 V1.0 INITIAL
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