Huawei Smartphone TAG-AL00C92B168 Crafted Application information disclosure

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Huawei Smartphone TAG-AL00C92B168. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Such manipulation as part of Crafted Application leads to information disclosure. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2017-15340. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Huawei Smartphone TAG-AL00C92B168 (Smartphone Operating System). Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality. The manipulation as part of a Crafted Application leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Huawei smartphones with software of TAG-AL00C92B168 have an information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker tricks the user to install a crafted application, this application simulate click action to back up data in a non-encrypted way using an Android assist function. Successful exploit could result in information disclosure.

The bug was discovered 12/13/2017. The weakness was released 02/15/2018 (Website). The advisory is available at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-15340 since 10/14/2017. 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. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/08/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 64 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.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Huawei

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• Smartphone

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• TAG-AL00C92B168

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

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