Security Advisory - Information Disclosure Vulnerability on Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20171213-05-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Dec 13, 2017
- Last Release Date: Dec 13, 2017
There is an information disclosure vulnerability on Huawei smartphones. An attacker tricks the user to install a crafted application, this application simulate click action to back up data in a non-encrypted way using an Android assist function. Successful exploit could result in information disclosure. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-09005)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-15340.
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-20171213-05-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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TAG-AL00 |
TAG-AL00C92B168 |
TAG-AL00C92B170 |
Successful exploit could result in information disclosure.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker tricks the user to install a crafted application
Vulnerability details:
An attacker tricks the user to install a crafted application, this application simulate click action to back up data in a non-encrypted way using an Android assist function. Successful exploit could result in information disclosure.
Customers should contact Huawei TAC (Huawei Technical Assistance Center) to request the upgrades. For TAC contact information, please refer to Huawei worldwide website at http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/report-vulnerabilities.
This vulnerability was disclosed by Soujiaowu from misec. Huawei would like to thank him for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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