# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 2 Jul 2018
- **Updated:** 5 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xw4f-5967-g57v

## 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 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17175?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## Is CVE-2017-17175 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17175 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2017-17175 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17175 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 9 Pro. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-17175/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-17175/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17175
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17175
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17175

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