CVE-2017-2716 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the camerafs driver of Huawei Mate 9 devices running firmware versions earlier than MHA-AL00BC00B173. An attacker could exploit this by tricking a user into installing a malicious Android application with system privileges, which then sends a specific parameter to the driver. This vulnerability carries a CVSSv3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and potentially leading to a system crash or privilege escalation. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< mha-al00bc00b173CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:mate_9_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.