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CVE-2017-17172

N/A

Published: June 14, 2018 at 02:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:10 AM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorLyo L21 FirmwareLYO-L21

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 0.2%

Description

Huawei smart phones LYO-L21 with software LYO-L21C479B107, LYO-L21C479B107 have a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, local attacker can crafts malformed packets after tricking a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege of the smart phones.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

LYO-L21 · Huawei

60%

LYO-L21C479B107, LYO-L21C479B107

huawei-lyo-l21-firmware (same device)

Lyo L21 Firmware · Huaweidevice

80%

All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180613-01-smartphone-en

References (1)

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180613-01-smartphone-en

CVSS

4.4MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-755

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