What is CVE-2017-8183?

CVE-2017-8183 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-11-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-8183?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone

CVE-2017-8183

MTK platform in Huawei smart phones with software of earlier than Nice-AL00C00B160 versions, earlier than Nice-AL10C00B140 versions has a any memory access vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to cause to any memory access vulnerabilities, leading to sensitive information leakage.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.006 (47.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Huawei Mtk_platform_smart_phone
Huawei Mtk_platform_smart_phone_firmware
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Nice-al00 — versions Earlier than Nice-AL00C00B160 versions, Earlier than Nice-AL10C00B140 versions

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

psirt@huawei.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8183?: CVE-2017-8183 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-11-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-8183?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.