CVE-2017-17327 — Huawei smartphones with software of MHA-AL00AC00B125 have an improper resource m

Huawei smartphones with software of MHA-AL00AC00B125 have an improper resource management vulnerability. The software does not properly manage the resource when do device register operation. An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application, succ

01What is this vulnerability?

Huawei smartphones with software of MHA-AL00AC00B125 have an improper resource management vulnerability. The software does not properly manage the resource when do device register operation. An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application, successful exploit could cause certain service unavailable.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	MHA	AL00A — MHA-AL00AC00B125

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2018-03-09T17:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T20:51:31.055Z

09References

• www.huawei.com — http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171220-03-smartph…