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CVE-2017-8215

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-8215 describes a permission control vulnerability affecting various Huawei Honor and Nova smartphone models with specific software versions. An attacker with system privileges on the device can exploit this flaw to bypass the unlock code verification and unlock the phone's bootloader. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.0 score of 6.2 (Medium), indicating that a high-privileged attacker with physical access can achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< frd-al00c00b391CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_8_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< frd-dl00c00b391CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_8_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< knt-al10c00b391CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_v8_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< knt-al20c00b391CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_v8_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< knt-ul10c00b391CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_v8_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

6.2MEDIUM

CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
PHYSICAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.3
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.28%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
20.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0028 is in the 32nd percentile among its peer group of 48 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

huawei.com / en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170807-01-smartphone-en
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory