Security Advisory - Remote Control Vulnerability in RCS Module of Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180425-01-rcs
- Initial Release Date: Apr 25, 2018
- Last Release Date: Apr 25, 2018
There is a remote control vulnerability in RCS module of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application. When the application connects with RCS for the first time, it needs user to manually click to agree. In addition, the attacker needs to obtain the key that RCS uses to authenticate the application. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to control keyboard remotely. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-02010)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7901.
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-20180425-01-rcs-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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ALP-AL00B |
earlier versions than 8.0.0.129 |
Upgrade to 8.0.0.129(SP2C00) |
|
BLA-AL00B |
earlier versions than 8.0.0.129 |
Upgrade to 8.0.0.129(SP2C00) |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can control keyboard remotely.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L)
Temporal Score: 4.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker should trick a user to install a malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
There is a remote control vulnerability in RCS module of some Huawei smart phones. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application. When the application connects with RCS for the first time, it needs user to manually click to agree. In addition, the attacker needs to obtain the key that RCS uses to authenticate the application. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to control keyboard remotely.
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.
2018-04-25 V1.0 INITIAL
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