Security Advisory - Arbitrary URL Loading Vulnerability in TripAdvisor
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180130-01-tripadvisor
- Initial Release Date: Jan 30, 2018
- Last Release Date: Jan 30, 2018
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17226.
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-20180130-01-tripadvisor-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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TripAdvisor |
The versions before TAMobileApp-24.6.4 |
TAMobileApp-24.6.4 |
An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to invoke TripAdvisor to load a specific URL and execute malicious code contained in the URL.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Temporal Score: 4.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker has successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
The TripAdvisor app pre-installed in some Huawei mobile phones have an arbitrary URL loading vulnerability due to insufficient input validation and improper configuration. An attacker may exploit this vulnerability to invoke TripAdvisor to load a specific URL and execute malicious code contained in the URL.
Users can access and upgrade the fix version through the major APP store.
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