What is CVE-2017-8161?

CVE-2017-8161 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Eva-L09, classified under Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2017-11-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-8161?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.

Is CVE-2017-8161 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Huawei Eva-L09

CVE-2017-8161

EVA-L09 smartphones with software Earlier than EVA-L09C25B150CUSTC25D003 versions,Earlier than EVA-L09C440B140 versions,Earlier than EVA-L09C464B361 versions,Earlier than EVA-L09C675B320CUSTC675D004 versions have Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass security vulnerability. When re-configuring the mobile phone using the factory reset protection (FRP) function, an attacker can login the Swype and can perform some operations to update the Google account. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed.

EPSS: 0.002 (14.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Huawei Eva-l09
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Eva-l09 — versions Earlier than EVA-L09C25B150CUSTC25D003 versions,Earlier than EVA-L09C440B140 versions,Earlier than EVA-L09C464B361 versions,Earlier than EVA-L09C675B320CUSTC675D004 versions

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-668 — Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

psirt@huawei.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8161?: CVE-2017-8161 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Eva-L09, classified under Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere. CVSS score: 4.6/10. Published 2017-11-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-8161?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.6 out of 10.
Is CVE-2017-8161 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.