Security Advisory - Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei Honor 5S Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170816-03-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Aug 16, 2017
- Last Release Date: Aug 16, 2017
Huawei Honor 5S smart phones have an authentication bypass vulnerability due to the improper design of some components. An attacker can get a user's smart phone and install malicious apps in the mobile phone, allowing the attacker to reset the password and fingerprint of the phone without authentication. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-07037)
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2017-8151.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-20170816-03-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Honor 5S |
The versions before TAG-TL00C01B173 |
TAG-TL00C01B173 |
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.8 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)Temporal Score: 6.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker obtains a user's smart phone in unlocked state.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker can get a user's smart phone and install malicious apps in the mobile phone, allowing the attacker to reset the password and fingerprint of the phone without authentication.
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 security researcher Zhang Qing. Huawei would like to thank Zhang Qing for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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