Buffer overflow in Huawei Honor 9
CVE-2017-8204
The Bastet driver of Honor 9 Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than Stanford-AL10C00B175 has a buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious APP which has the root privilege; the APP can send a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing arbitrary code execution
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
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.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.013 (71.2th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 71st percentile — 71.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Huawei Honor 9
- Huawei Honor 9 Firmware
- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Honor 9 — versions Versions earlier than Stanford-AL10C00B175
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170914-01-smartphone-en (Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/101962 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-8204?
- CVE-2017-8204 is a high-severity vulnerability in Huawei Honor 9, 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-2017-8204?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2017-8204 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.