Huawei Honor 6/Honor 6 Plus/Honor 7 up to 6.9.15 PXN Defense 7pk security
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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6.4 | $0-$5k | 0.00 |
A vulnerability was found in Huawei Honor 6, Honor 6 Plus and Honor 7 up to 6.9.15. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component PXN Defense. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a 7pk security vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-254. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Huawei Honor 6, Honor 6 Plus, Honor 7 phones with software versions earlier than 6.9.16 could allow attackers to disable the PXN defense mechanism by invoking related drive code to crash the system or escalate privilege.
The bug was discovered 10/26/2016. The weakness was released 04/02/2017 (Website). The advisory is available at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2016-8768 since 10/18/2016. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1211 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 158 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.
Upgrading to version 6.9.16 eliminates this vulnerability.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4
VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
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NVD Base Score: 7.8
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CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: 7pk securityCWE: CWE-254
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Local: No
Remote: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: UpgradeStatus: 🔍
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Upgrade: Honor 6/Honor 6 Plus/Honor 7 6.9.16
Timeline
10/18/2016 🔍10/26/2016 🔍
10/26/2016 🔍
04/02/2017 🔍
04/02/2017 🔍
04/03/2017 🔍
11/24/2022 🔍
Sources
Vendor: huawei.comAdvisory: sa-20161026-01
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2016-8768 (🔍)
SecurityFocus: 93885 - Multiple Huawei Products CVE-2016-8768 Local Privilege Escalation
OSVDB: - CVE-2016-8768 - Huawei - Honor 6 Firmware - High
Entry
Created: 04/03/2017 09:04Updated: 11/24/2022 14:37
Changes: 04/03/2017 09:04 (61), 08/25/2020 09:11 (5), 11/24/2022 14:37 (4)
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