CVE-2018-7906 Denial of service in Leland-AL00, Leland-AL00A
Attackers can cause a black screen denial of service on Huawei smartphones by tricking users into installing malicious applications due to insufficient parameter verification.
- 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-2018-7906?
CVE-2018-7906 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Leland-AL00, Leland-AL00A, published on 12 Sep 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
Some Huawei smart phones with software of Leland-AL00 8.0.0.114(C636), Leland-AL00A 8.0.0.171(C00) have a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application to exploit this vulnerability. Due to insufficient verification of the parameter, successful exploitation can cause the smartphone black screen until restarting the phone.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-7906?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Huawei Leland-Al00 Firmware, Huawei Lleland-Al00a Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2018-7906?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-7906 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-2018-7906 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7906 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-f8cw-q938-qj7r.