CVE-2017-17327 Denial of service in MHA-AL00A
An attacker can cause service unavailability on Huawei smartphones by tricking a root-privileged user into installing a crafted application.
- 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-2017-17327?
CVE-2017-17327 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. MHA-AL00A, 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
Huawei smartphones with software of MHA-AL00AC00B125 have an improper resource management vulnerability. The software does not properly manage the resource when do device register operation. An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application, successful exploit could cause certain service unavailable.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17327?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Huawei Mha-Al00a Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-17327?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-17327 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-2017-17327 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17327 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. MHA-AL00A
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gqf2-cp56-f2m4.