Medium severity · published Jul 2, 2018
CVE-2017-17175
Short Message Service (SMS) module of Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.354(C00) has a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Short Message Service (SMS) module of Mate 9 Pro Huawei smart phones with the versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.354(C00) has a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker may set up a pseudo base station, and send special malware text message to the phone, causing the mobile phone to fail to make calls and send and receive text messages.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Adjacent
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 33% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
M9
Mate 9 Pro · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
The versions before LON-AL00B 8.0.0.354(C00) · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17175
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17175
Vendor Advisory
https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180629-01-smartphone-en
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