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CVE-2017-17140

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Huawei Enjoy 5s and Y6 Pro smartphones with software the versions before TAG-AL00C92B170; the versions before TIT-L01C576B121 have an information leak vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone and the application can read some sensitive information in kernel memory which may cause sensitive information leak.

Affected products

• Huawei Enjoy 5S Firmware: before tag-al00c92b170 — fixed in tag-al00c92b170
• Huawei Y6 Pro Firmware: before tit-l01c576b121 — fixed in tit-l01c576b121

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Enjoy 5S Firmware tag-al00c92b170; Huawei Y6 Pro Firmware tit-l01c576b121. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171213-02-smartphone-en
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171213-02-smartphone-en

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