7.8
HIGH
CVE-2017-8180
Huawei MTK Camera Driver Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation
Description

The camera driver of MTK platform in Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than Nice-AL00C00B155 has a buffer overflow vulnerability.Due to the insufficient input verification, an attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application which has special privilege and sends a specific parameter to the driver of the smart phone, causing privilege escalation.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 22, 2017, 7:29 p.m.

Last Modified :

Dec. 8, 2017, 6:59 p.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

No

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

1.8
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2017-8180 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Huawei mtk_platform_smart_phone_firmware
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Resource
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170919-01-mtk-en Vendor Advisory

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2017-8180 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 08, 2017

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170919-01-mtk-en No Types Assigned http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170919-01-mtk-en Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-119
    Added CPE Configuration AND OR *cpe:2.3:o:huawei:mtk_platform_smart_phone_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) nice-al00c00b155 OR cpe:2.3:h:huawei:mtk_platform_smart_phone:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.09 }} 0.01%

score

0.39516

percentile

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