CVE-2017-17280 Information disclosure in LON-AL00B
An attacker can leak information from Huawei mobile phones by tricking users into specific operations and crafting malicious NFC messages.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2017-17280?
CVE-2017-17280 is a low-severity vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. LON-AL00B, published on 9 Mar 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
NFC (Near Field Communication) module in Huawei mobile phones with software LON-AL00BC00 has an information leak vulnerability. The attacker has to trick a user to do some specific operations and then craft the NFC message to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit will cause some information leak.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17280?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Huawei Lon-Al00b Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-17280?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-17280 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2017-17280 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17280 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. LON-AL00B
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hpx3-j9vj-28q2.