Security Advisory - FRP Bypass Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180622-01-bypass
- Initial Release Date: Jun 22, 2018
- Last Release Date: Jun 22, 2018
There is Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. An attacker gets some user's smart phone and performs some special operations in the guide function. The attacker may exploit the vulnerability to bypass FRP function and use the phone normally. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-04051)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7944.
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-20180622-01-bypass-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
|
Emily-AL00A |
8.1.0.106(SP2C00) |
Upgrade to 8.1.0.123(C00) |
|
8.1.0.107(SP5C00) |
The attacker may exploit the vulnerability to bypass FRP function and use the phone normally.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.6 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
1, The attacker obtains the user's smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker gets some user's smart phone and performs some special operations in the guide function. The attacker may exploit the vulnerability to bypass FRP function and use the phone normally.
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.
2018-06-22 V1.0 INITIAL
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