CVE-2017-8159

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-704

Description

Some Huawei smartphones with software AGS-L09C233B019,AGS-W09C233B019,KOB-L09C233B017,KOB-W09C233B012 have a type confusion vulnerability. The program initializes a variable using one type, but it later accesses that variable using a type that is different with the original type when do certain register operation. Successful exploit could result in buffer overflow then may cause malicious code execution.

Affected products

Huawei Agassi-L09Hn Firmware: ags-l09c233b019
Huawei Agassi-W09Hn Firmware: ags-w09c233b019
Huawei Kobe-L09Ahn Firmware: kob-l09c233b017
Huawei Kobe-W09Chn Firmware: kob-w09c233b012

References

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/2017/huawei-sa-20171018-02-smartphone-en
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/2017/huawei-sa-20171018-02-smartphone-en

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