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Security Advisory - Information Exposure Vulnerability in Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20170920-01-encryption
  • Initial Release Date: Sep 20, 2017
  • Last Release Date: Sep 20, 2017

Some Huawei products have an information exposure vulnerability. Encryption keys are stored in the system. The attacker can implement reverse engineering to obtain the encryption keys, causing information exposure. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-07133)

This vulnerability has been assigned Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2704.

Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170920-01-encryption-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Smarthome

1.0.2.364 and earlier versions

1.0.2.364

HiAPP

7.3.0.303 and earlier versions

7.3.0.303

HwParentControl

2.0.0 and earlier versions

2.0.0

HwParentControlParent

5.1.0.12 and earlier versions

5.1.0.12

Crowdtest

1.5.3 and earlier versions

1.5.3

HiWallet

8.0.0.301 and earlier versions

8.0.0.301

Huawei Pay

8.0.0.300 and earlier versions

8.0.0.300

Skytone

8.1.2.300 and earlier versions

8.1.2.300

HwCloudDrive(EMUI6.0)

8.0.0.307 and earlier versions

8.0.0.307

HwPhoneFinder(EMUI6.0)

9.3.0.310 and earlier versions

9.3.0.310

HwPhoneFinder(EMUI5.1)

9.2.2.303 and earlier versions

9.2.2.303

HiCinema

8.0.2.300 and earlier versions

8.0.2.300

HuaweiWear

21.0.0.360 and earlier versions

21.0.0.360

HiHealthApp

3.0.3.300 and earlier versions

3.0.3.300

Attackers can obtain the encryption keys, causing information exposure.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (https://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

1. Prerequisite:

The attacker could obtain the software of affected products;

2. Attacking procedure:

Encryption keys are stored in the system. The attacker can implement reverse engineering to obtain the encryption keys, causing information exposure. 

The affected products could get the update patch from Huawei HiAPP. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.

2017-09-20 V1.0 INITIAL

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