CVE-2017-2701 Denial of service in Mate 9
An attacker can cause system unavailability on Huawei Mate 9 devices by tricking users into installing a malicious app that exploits unverified broadcast 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-2017-2701?
CVE-2017-2701 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 9, published on 22 Nov 2017. 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
Mate 9 with software MHA-AL00AC00B125 has a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application. Since the system does not verify the broadcasting message from the application, it could be exploited to cause some functions of system unavailable.
Weakness: CWE-345
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-2701?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Huawei Mate 9 Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-2701?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-2701 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-2017-2701 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-2701 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 9
Sources
Also known as GHSA-27qc-3c4c-hwfw.