# CVE-2017-8173: Maya-L02,VKY-L09,VTR-L29,Vicky-AL00A,Victoria-AL00A,Warsaw-AL00 smart phones with software of earlier than Maya-L02C636B126 versions,earlier


- **Severity:** Medium 4.6 (`CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Nov 2017
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j42q-mr6r-qh9r

## What is CVE-2017-8173?

CVE-2017-8173 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Maya-L02,VKY-L09,VTR-L29,Vicky-AL00A,Victoria-AL00A,Warsaw-AL00, published on 22 Nov 2017. 

### Official description

Maya-L02,VKY-L09,VTR-L29,Vicky-AL00A,Victoria-AL00A,Warsaw-AL00 smart phones with software of earlier than Maya-L02C636B126 versions,earlier than VKY-L29C10B151 versions,earlier than VTR-L29C10B151 versions,earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B162 versions,earlier than Victoria-AL00AC00B167 versions,earlier than Warsaw-AL00C00B200 versions have a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass security vulnerability. When re-configuring the mobile phone using the factory reset protection (FRP) function, an attacker can login the configuration flow by some secret code and can perform some operations to update the Google account. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8173?

It affects 6 products.


Products: Huawei Maya-L02 Firmware, Huawei Vicky-Al00a Firmware, Huawei Victoria-Al00a Firmware, Huawei Vky-L09 Firmware, Huawei Vky-L29 Firmware, Huawei Warsaw-Al00 Firmware.

## How do I fix CVE-2017-8173?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-8173 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2017-8173 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8173 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2017-8173 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2017-8173 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Maya-L02,VKY-L09,VTR-L29,Vicky-AL00A,Victoria-AL00A,Warsaw-AL00, published on 22 Nov 2017. 
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8173 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Maya-L02,VKY-L09,VTR-L29,Vicky-AL00A,Victoria-AL00A,Warsaw-AL00. 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-2017-8173/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-8173/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8173
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8173
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8173

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