Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Push Module of Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170712-02-push
- Initial Release Date: Jul 12, 2017
- Last Release Date: Jul 12, 2017
There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Push module of Huawei Smart Phone. An attacker tricks a user to save a rich media into message on the smart phone, which could be exploited to cause the attacker to delete message or fake user to send message. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-05070)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2707.
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-20170712-02-push-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate 9 |
MHA-AL00AC00B125 |
MHA-AL00AC00B225 |
By exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can delete message or fake user to send message.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)
Temporal Score: 4.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker tricks a user to save a malicious rich media into message on the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Push module of Huawei Smart Phone. An attacker tricks a user to save a rich media into message on the smart phone, which could be exploited to cause the attacker to delete message or fake user to send message.
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.
2017-07-12 V1.0 INITIAL
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