Huawei Warsaw-AL00 Factory Reset Protection access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Huawei Maya-L02, VKY-L09, VTR-L29, Vicky-AL00A, Victoria-AL00A and Warsaw-AL00. This impacts an unknown function of the component Factory Reset Protection. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2017-8173. The attack can be executed directly on the physical device. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Huawei Maya-L02, VKY-L09, VTR-L29, Vicky-AL00A, Victoria-AL00A and Warsaw-AL00. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Factory Reset Protection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Maya-L02,VKY-L09,VTR-L29,Vicky-AL00A,Victoria-AL00A,Warsaw-AL00 smart phones with software of earlier than Maya-L02C636B126 versions,earlier than VKY-L29C10B151 versions,earlier than VTR-L29C10B151 versions,earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B162 versions,earlier than Victoria-AL00AC00B167 versions,earlier than Warsaw-AL00C00B200 versions have a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass security vulnerability. When re-configuring the mobile phone using the factory reset protection (FRP) function, an attacker can login the configuration flow by some secret code and can perform some operations to update the Google account. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed.

The bug was discovered 08/11/2017. The weakness was published 11/22/2017 (Website). The advisory is available at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-8173 since 04/25/2017. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 103 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Yes
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Timelineinfo

04/25/2017 🔍
08/11/2017 +108 days 🔍
11/22/2017 +103 days 🔍
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11/23/2017 +1 days 🔍
01/16/2023 +1880 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: sa-20170715-01
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-8173 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-8173
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-109910

Entryinfo

Created: 11/23/2017 16:45
Updated: 01/16/2023 08:03
Changes: 11/23/2017 16:45 (56), 12/10/2019 10:23 (2), 01/16/2023 08:03 (4)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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