Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170802-01-broadcasting
- Initial Release Date: Aug 02, 2017
- Last Release Date: Aug 02, 2017
There is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in some Huawei Smartphones. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application. Since the system does not verify the broadcasting message from the application, it could be exploited to cause some functions of system unavailable. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-05109)
This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2701.
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-20170802-01-broadcasting-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate 9 |
MHA-AL00AC00B125 |
MHA-AL00AC00B230 |
By exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker can cause some functions of system unavailable.
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:N/UI:R/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:
The attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
There is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in some Huawei Smartphones. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application. Since the system does not verify the broadcasting message from the application, it could be exploited to cause some functions of system unavailable.
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.
2017-08-02 V1.0 INITIAL
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