A vulnerability was found in Huawei HwVmall up to 1.5.1.x. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component AlarmService. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-275. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The AlarmService component in HwVmall with software earlier than 1.5.2.0 versions has no control over calling permissions, allowing any third party to call. An attacker can construct a malicious application to call it. Consequently, alert music will be played suddenly, compromising user experience.

The bug was discovered 01/25/2017. The weakness was presented 11/22/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-2694 since 12/01/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 301 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version 1.5.2.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• HwVmall

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• 1.5.0
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• commercial

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