4.9

CVE-2017-8171: huawei technologies co., ltd. vicky-al00a Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

CVSS: 4.9v2.0MediumModified
Published 22-11-2017Last modified 17-09-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8171 is a medium (CVSS 4.9) Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability in huawei technologies co., ltd. vicky-al00a. EPSS estimates a 0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.9/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.23%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 22-11-2017
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 17-09-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Huawei smart phones with software earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B172D 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 Talkback mode and can perform some operations to bypass the Google account verification. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 1 source · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.23%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

13%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.23% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.23%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Huawei1 product
Huawei technologies co., ltd.1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

1 links