Security Advisory - Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170426-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Apr 26, 2017
- Last Release Date: Apr 26, 2017
There is a directory traversal vulnerability in Huawei smart phone. The attacker can trick a user into installing the malicious APP and change a specific URI to an arbitrary directory. Eventually the attacker can obtain the files in email application. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03005)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2695.
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-20170426-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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TIT-AL00 |
TIT-AL00C583B211 |
TIT-AL00C583B214 |
By exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can obtain the files in email application.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker has successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious APP.
Vulnerability details:
There is a directory traversal vulnerability in Huawei smart phone. The attacker can trick a user into installing the malicious APP and change a specific URI to an arbitrary directory. Eventually the attacker can obtain the files in email application.
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.
2017-04-26 V1.0 INITIAL
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