Security Advisory - Information Leak Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180307-01-phone
- Initial Release Date: Mar 07, 2018
- Last Release Date: Mar 07, 2018
There is an information leak vulnerability in the NFC (Near Field Communication) module of some Huawei mobile phones. The attacker has to trick a user to do some specific operations and then craft the NFC message to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit will cause some information leak. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-09147)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-17280.
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-20180307-01-phone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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LON-AL00B |
LON-AL00BC00 |
8.0.0.334(C00) |
Successful exploit will cause some information leak.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 3.5 (AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 3.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
1. The attacker gains the near-filed access the phone.
2. The attacker has to trick a user to do some specific operations.
Vulnerability details:
The attacker has to trick a user to do some specific operations and then craft the NFC message to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit will cause some information leak.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2018-03-07 V1.0 INITIAL
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