Huawei P10 prior Victoria-AL00AC00B217 Permission information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Huawei P10. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Permission. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2018-7938. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Huawei P10 (Smartphone Operating System). This affects some unknown processing of the component Permission. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

P10 Huawei smartphones with the versions before Victoria-AL00AC00B217 have an information leak vulnerability due to the lack of permission validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the application can read some hardware serial number, which may cause sensitive information leak.

The bug was discovered 08/07/2018. The weakness was released 09/04/2018 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at huawei.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2018-7938 since 03/08/2018. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 28 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version Victoria-AL00AC00B217 eliminates this vulnerability.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 3.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 3.7

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.1
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NVD Base Score: 3.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Information disclosure
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: P10 Victoria-AL00AC00B217

Timelineinfo

03/08/2018 🔍
08/07/2018 +151 days 🔍
09/04/2018 +27 days 🔍
09/04/2018 +0 days 🔍
09/05/2018 +1 days 🔍
05/07/2023 +1705 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: sa-20180827-01
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2018-7938 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2018-7938
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-123591

Entryinfo

Created: 09/05/2018 07:03
Updated: 05/07/2023 08:55
Changes: 09/05/2018 07:03 (58), 03/20/2020 16:24 (2), 05/07/2023 08:55 (3)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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