Security Advisory - Two Vulnerabilities in APPGallery of Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180423-01-app
- Initial Release Date: Apr 23, 2018
- Last Release Date: Apr 23, 2018
There is a whitelist mechanism bypass vulnerability and an arbitrary Javascript running vulnerability in Huawei AppGallery. An attacker may set up a malicious network environment and trick user into accessing a malicious web page to bypass the whitelist mechanism, which make the malicious Javascript loaded and run in the smart phone. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-04119 and HWPSIRT-2018-04120)
The two vulnerabilities have been assigned two CVE IDs: CVE-2018-7931 and CVE-2018-7932.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-20180423-01-app-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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AppGallery |
The versions before 8.0.4.301 |
8.0.4.301 |
HWPSIRT-2018-04119:
Base Score: 4.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
HWPSIRT-2018-04120:
Base Score: 6.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Temporal Score: 5.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
Phone access to the malicious network created by attcker and the attcker tricked a user into accessing a malicious web page.
Vulnerability details:
There is a whitelist mechanism bypass vulnerability and an arbitrary Javascript running vulnerability in Huawei AppGallery. An attacker may set up a malicious network environment and trick user into accessing a malicious web page to bypass the whitelist mechanism, which make the malicious Javascript loaded and run in the smart phone.
System will receive a update prompt. User can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by MWR InfoSecurity Labs. Huawei would like to thank MWR InfoSecurity Labs for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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