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CVE-2017-8183

• 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: 2017-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

MTK platform in Huawei smart phones with software of earlier than Nice-AL00C00B160 versions, earlier than Nice-AL10C00B140 versions has a any memory access vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to cause to any memory access vulnerabilities, leading to sensitive information leakage.

Affected products

• Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone Firmware: before nice-al10c00b140; before nice-al00c00b160 — fixed in nice-al00c00b160, nice-al10c00b140

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Mtk Platform Smart Phone Firmware nice-al00c00b160, nice-al10c00b140. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171115-01-mtk-en
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171115-01-mtk-en

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