CVE-2018-7910 — Some Huawei smartphones ALP-AL00B 8

Some Huawei smartphones ALP-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), ALP-TL00B 8.0.0.118D(C01), BLA-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), BLA-L09C 8.0.0.127(C432), 8.0.0.128(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432), BLA-L29C 8.0.0.129(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432) have an authentication bypass vulnerability. When the attacker obtains th

01What is this vulnerability?

Some Huawei smartphones ALP-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), ALP-TL00B 8.0.0.118D(C01), BLA-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), BLA-L09C 8.0.0.127(C432), 8.0.0.128(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432), BLA-L29C 8.0.0.129(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432) have an authentication bypass vulnerability. When the attacker obtains the user's smartphone, the vulnerability can be used to replace the start-up program so that the attacker can obtain the…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	ALP	AL00B, ALP-TL00B, BLA-AL00B, BLA-L09C, BLA-L29C — ALP-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), ALP-TL00B 8.0.0.118D(C01), BLA-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), BLA-L09C 8.0.0.127(C432), 8.0.0.128(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432), BLA-L29C 8.0.0.129(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432)

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: 2018-11-13T19:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T06:37:59.598Z

09References

• www.huawei.com — http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20181101-01-bypass-…