CVE-2017-8210 is a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Huawei honor 5C and honor 6X smartphones running specific older software versions. It stems from insufficient parameter validation in the device driver. An attacker could trick a user into installing a malicious Android application with root privileges, which could then send a specially crafted parameter to the driver, leading to a system reboot or arbitrary code execution. Rated 7.8 HIGH on CVSS, this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) for exploitation, but has high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< nem-al10c00b356CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_5c_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< berlin-l21hnc432b360CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:honor_6x_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.