CVE-2017-17173

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Due to insufficient parameters verification GPU driver of Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00) has an arbitrary memory free vulnerability. An attacker can tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to driver to release special kernel memory resource. Successful exploit may result in phone crash or arbitrary code execution.

Debido a la insuficiente verificación de parámetros, el controlador de la GPU de los smartphones Mate 9 Pro de Huawei en versiones anteriores a la LON-AL00B 8.0.0.356(C00) tiene una vulnerabilidad de liberación de memoria arbitraria. Un atacante puede engañar a un usuario para que instale una aplicación maliciosa en el smartphone y enviar un parámetro dado al controlador para que libere recursos especiales de la memoria del kernel. La explotación con éxito de esta vulnerabilidad podría desembocar en el cierre inesperado del teléfono o en la ejecución arbitraria de código.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2017-12-04 CVE Reserved
2018-06-14 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-05 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

CAPEC

References (1)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180613-02-smartphone-en	2018-08-13

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Huawei Search vendor "Huawei"	Mate 9 Pro Fimware Search vendor "Huawei" for product "Mate 9 Pro Fimware"	< lon-al00b_8.0.0.356\(c00\) Search vendor "Huawei" for product "Mate 9 Pro Fimware" and version " < lon-al00b_8.0.0.356\(c00\)"	-	Affected	in	Huawei Search vendor "Huawei"	Mate 9 Pro Search vendor "Huawei" for product "Mate 9 Pro"	-	-	Safe