CVE-2017-17172 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Huawei LYO-L21 smartphones running specific firmware versions (LYO-L21C479B107). An authenticated, local attacker can achieve higher privileges by tricking a user into installing a malicious application and then crafting malformed packets during the exception handling process. This vulnerability is rated High severity (CVSS 7.3) due to its potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction and local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:h:huawei:lyo-l21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.