Security Advisory - Stored Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Huawei Email APP of Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20170908-01-email
- Initial Release Date: Sep 08, 2017
- Last Release Date: Sep 08, 2017
There is a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability in Huawei Email APP of smartphones. The vulnerability is due to insufficient verification of parameter values. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send email that storing malicious code to a smartphone and waiting for a user to access this email that triggers execution of the code. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code on the affected device. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-07071)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8178.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-20170908-01-email-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Vicky-AL00 |
Earlier than VKY-AL00C00B171 versions |
Upgrade to VKY-AL00C00B171 |
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary script code on the affected device.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker sends one Email to smartphone.
Vulnerability details:
The vulnerability is due to insufficient verification of parameter values. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send email that storing malicious code to a smartphone and waiting for a user to access this email that triggers execution of the code. An exploit could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary script code on the affected device.
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 topsec (lizhiqiang). Huawei would like to thank lizhiqiang for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2017-09-08 V1.0 INITIAL
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