Huawei Smartphone improper authentication

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A vulnerability was found in Huawei Smartphone and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2018-7910. The attack can be executed directly on the physical device. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Huawei Smartphone (Smartphone Operating System) (the affected version is unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Some Huawei smartphones ALP-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), ALP-TL00B 8.0.0.118D(C01), BLA-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), BLA-L09C 8.0.0.127(C432), 8.0.0.128(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432), BLA-L29C 8.0.0.129(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432) have an authentication bypass vulnerability. When the attacker obtains the user's smartphone, the vulnerability can be used to replace the start-up program so that the attacker can obtain the information in the smartphone and achieve the purpose of controlling the smartphone.

The bug was discovered 11/01/2018. The weakness was presented 11/13/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-7910 since 03/09/2018. 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 current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/06/2023).

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 12 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.

See VDB-126789 for similar entry. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Huawei

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• Smartphone

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

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