What is CVE-2017-17159?

CVE-2017-17159 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Mt8-Emui4.1, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-02-15.

How severe is CVE-2017-17159?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Huawei Mt8-Emui4.1

CVE-2017-17159

Some Huawei smart phones with software of NXT-AL10C00B386, NXT-CL00C92B386, NXT-DL00C17B386, NXT-TL00C01B386SP01, NTS-AL00C00B535 have a DoS vulnerability due to insufficient input validation. An unauthenticated attacker could send malformed System Information(SI) messages to the smart phone within radio range by special wireless device. Successful exploit could make the smart phone restart.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.004 (29.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Huawei Mt8-emui4.1
Huawei Mt8-emui4.1_firmware — versions nxt-al10c00b386, nxt-cl00c92b386, nxt-dl00c17b386
Huawei Nts-al00
Huawei Nts-al00_firmware — versions nts-al00c00b535
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mt8-emui4.1,nts-al00 — versions NXT-AL10C00B386, NXT-CL00C92B386, NXT-DL00C17B386, NXT-TL00C01B386SP01,NTS-AL00C00B535

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

psirt@huawei.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-17159?: CVE-2017-17159 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Mt8-Emui4.1, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2018-02-15.
How severe is CVE-2017-17159?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.