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CVE-2017-8181

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 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: 2017-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The camera driver of MTK platform in Huawei smart phones with software of versions earlier than Nice-AL00C00B155 has a arbitrary memory write 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.

Affected products

• Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone Firmware: before nice-al00c00b155 — fixed in nice-al00c00b155

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone Firmware nice-al00c00b155. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170919-01-mtk-en
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170919-01-mtk-en

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