Security Advisory - Information Leak Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20180827-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Aug 27, 2018
- Last Release Date: Aug 27, 2018
This vulnerability has been assigned a CVE ID: CVE-2018-7938.
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-20180827-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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P10 |
The versions before Victoria-AL00AC00B217 |
Upgrade to Victoria-AL00AC00B217 |
Base Score: 3.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 3.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
The attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone.
Vulnerability details:
Some Huawei smartphones have an information leak vulnerability due to the lack of permission validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the application can read some hardware serial number, which may cause sensitive information leak.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
2018-08-27 V1.0 INITIAL
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