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CVE-2017-8171

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% 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-668

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.

Affected products

• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. P10 Plus: before vicky-al00ac00b172d — fixed in vicky-al00ac00b172d

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. P10 Plus vicky-al00ac00b172d. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171018-01-frpbypass-en
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171018-01-frpbypass-en

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