CVE-2017-8204 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Bastet driver of Huawei Honor 9 smartphones running software versions earlier than Stanford-AL10C00B175. This flaw, categorized as CWE-119, allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution by tricking a user into installing a malicious application with root privileges that sends a specially crafted parameter to the driver. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< stanford-al10c00b175CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_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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