Vulnerability in Huawei P9

CVE-2017-8148

Audio driver in P9 smartphones with software The versions before EVA-AL10C00B389 has a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and the race condition cause null pointer accessing during the application access shared resource, which make the system reboot.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (31.2th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 31st percentile — 31.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2017-8148: held from 0.004 to 0.004.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8148?
CVE-2017-8148 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei P9, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2017-11-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-8148?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-8148 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.