CVE-2017-8142

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-416 Use After Free

Publication date:

22/11/2017

Last modified:

20/04/2025

Description

The Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) module driver of Mate 9 and Mate 9 Pro smart phones with software versions earlier than MHA-AL00BC00B221 and versions earlier than LON-AL00BC00B221 has a use after free (UAF) vulnerability. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application, and the application can start multiple threads and try to create and free specific memory, which could triggers access memory after free it and causes a system crash or arbitrary code execution.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.80 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

7.80

Severity 3.x

HIGH

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

9.30

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:mate_9_firmware::::::::		mha-al00bc00b221 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:h:huawei:mate_9:-:::::::*
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:mate_9_pro_firmware::::::::		lon-al00bc00b221 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:h:huawei:mate_9_pro:-:::::::*

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CVE-2017-8142

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools