CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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5.4 | $5k-$25k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in Huawei Smart Phone NTS-AL00C00B535/NXT-AL10C00B386/NXT-CL00C92B386/NXT-DL00C17B386/NXT-TL00C01B386SP01 (Smartphone Operating System). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component SI Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does
not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the
properties that are required to process the data safely and
correctly. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
Some Huawei smart phones with software of NXT-AL10C00B386, NXT-CL00C92B386, NXT-DL00C17B386, NXT-TL00C01B386SP01, NTS-AL00C00B535 have a DoS vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An unauthenticated attacker could send malformed System Information(SI) messages to the smart phone within radio range by special wireless device. Successful exploit could make the smart phone restart.
The bug was discovered 12/20/2017. The weakness was published 02/15/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-17159 since 12/04/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be initiated within the local network. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/08/2023).
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 57 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
Similar entry is available at VDB-113392.
Product
Type
Vendor
Name
Version
License
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.4
VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.3
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍
NVD Base Score: 6.5
NVD Vector: 🔍
CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Input validationCWE: CWE-20
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍
Local: No
Remote: Partially
Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
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EPSS Percentile: 🔍
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Current Price Estimation: 🔍
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Threat Intelligence
Interest: 🔍Active Actors: 🔍
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
0-Day Time: 🔍
Timeline
12/04/2017 🔍12/20/2017 🔍
02/15/2018 🔍
02/15/2018 🔍
02/16/2018 🔍
02/08/2023 🔍
Sources
Vendor: huawei.comAdvisory: sa-20171220-02
Status: Not defined
Confirmation: 🔍
CVE: CVE-2017-17159 (🔍)
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Entry
Created: 02/16/2018 08:47Updated: 02/08/2023 08:32
Changes: 02/16/2018 08:47 (58), 01/05/2020 16:20 (2), 02/08/2023 08:32 (3)
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