Huawei Honor 5S Factory Reset Protection security check

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei Honor 5S. It has been declared as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Factory Reset Protection. Such manipulation leads to security check. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-8152. The attack can be executed directly on the physical device. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Huawei Honor 5S (version now known). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Factory Reset Protection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a security check vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-358. The product does not implement or incorrectly implements one or more security-relevant checks as specified by the design of a standardized algorithm, protocol, or technique. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Huawei Honor 5S smart phones with software the versions before TAG-TL00C01B173 have a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass security vulnerability due to the improper design. An attacker can access factory reset page without authorization by only dial with special code. The attacker can exploit this vulnerability to restore the phone to factory settings.

The bug was discovered 09/01/2017. The weakness was disclosed 11/22/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-8152 since 04/25/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1211.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 82 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The entry VDB-109891 is pretty similar. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.4
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.3

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VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Security check
CWE: CWE-358
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Physical: Yes
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

04/25/2017 🔍
09/01/2017 +129 days 🔍
11/22/2017 +82 days 🔍
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11/23/2017 +1 days 🔍
01/11/2023 +1875 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: sa-20170901-02
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-8152 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-8152
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-109892
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Entryinfo

Created: 11/23/2017 16:09
Updated: 01/11/2023 16:42
Changes: 11/23/2017 16:09 (57), 12/10/2019 08:41 (2), 01/11/2023 16:42 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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