CVE-2017-8144 Denial of service in Honor 5A,Honor 8 Lite,Mate9,Mate9 Pro,P10,P10 Plus
A malicious application can exhaust device resources by rapidly draining the battery, causing a denial of service on Huawei smartphones.
- 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-2017-8144?
CVE-2017-8144 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Honor 5A,Honor 8 Lite,Mate9,Mate9 Pro,P10,P10 Plus, 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
Honor 5A,Honor 8 Lite,Mate9,Mate9 Pro,P10,P10 Plus Huawei smartphones with software the versions before CAM-L03C605B143CUSTC605D003,the versions before Prague-L03C605B161,the versions before Prague-L23C605B160,the versions before MHA-AL00C00B225,the versions before LON-AL00C00B225,the versions before VTR-AL00C00B167,the versions before VTR-TL00C01B167,the versions before VKY-AL00C00B167,the versions before VKY-TL00C01B167 have a resource exhaustion vulnerability due to configure setting. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application, the application may turn on the device flash-light and rapidly drain the device battery.
Weakness: CWE-920
Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8144?
It affects 6 products.
Products include Huawei Honor 5a Firmware, Huawei Honor 8 Lite Firmware, Huawei Mate 9 Firmware, Huawei Mate 9 Pro Firmware, Huawei P10 Firmware, Huawei P10 Plus Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2017-8144?
No fix has been published for CVE-2017-8144 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-2017-8144 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8144 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Honor 5A,Honor 8 Lite,Mate9,Mate9 Pro,P10,P10 Plus
Sources
Also known as GHSA-7v33-w57q-9g8p.