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CVE-2017-17172
Huawei smart phones LYO-L21 with software LYO-L21C479B107, LYO-L21C479B107 have a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated,…
High7.3EPSS 0.25%
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- huawei
Description
Huawei smart phones LYO-L21 with software LYO-L21C479B107, LYO-L21C479B107 have a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, local attacker can crafts malformed packets after tricking a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege of the smart phones.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Weakness
- privilege escalation
- CWE-755 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-755 and its CVEs
Affected products
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. · LYO-L21
- affected LYO-L21C479B107, LYO-L21C479B107
References (1)
- http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180613-01-smartphone-en (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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