CVE-2017-17175 Denial of service in Mate 9 Pro
An unauthenticated attacker can cause a denial of service on Huawei Mate 9 Pro phones by sending malicious SMS messages via a pseudo base station.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-17175?
CVE-2017-17175 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 9 Pro, published on 2 Jul 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17175?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Huawei Mate 9 Pro.
How do I fix CVE-2017-17175?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-17175 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2017-17175 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17175 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xw4f-5967-g57v.