CVE-2018-7929 — Huawei Mate RS smartphones with the versions before NEO-AL00D 8

Huawei Mate RS smartphones with the versions before NEO-AL00D 8.1.0.167(C786) have a lock-screen bypass vulnerability. An attacker could unlock and use the phone through certain operations.

01What is this vulnerability?

Huawei Mate RS smartphones with the versions before NEO-AL00D 8.1.0.167(C786) have a lock-screen bypass vulnerability. An attacker could unlock and use the phone through certain operations.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.	Mate RS	The versions before NEO-AL00D 8.1.0.167(C786)

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: 2018-09-18T13:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T06:37:59.615Z

09References

• www.huawei.com — http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180914-01-smartph…