What is CVE-2017-8181?

CVE-2017-8181 is a high-severity vulnerability in Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-11-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-8181?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone

CVE-2017-8181

The camera driver of MTK platform in Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than Nice-AL00C00B155 has a arbitrary memory write vulnerability.Due to the insufficient input verification, an attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has special privilege and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing privilege escalation.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.006 (47.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Huawei Mtk_platform_smart_phone
Huawei Mtk_platform_smart_phone_firmware
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Nice-al00 — versions Versions earlier than Nice-AL00C00B155

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

psirt@huawei.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8181?: CVE-2017-8181 is a high-severity vulnerability in Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2017-11-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-8181?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.