CVE-2017-8211 is a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Huawei Honor 5C and Honor 6X smartphones due to insufficient parameter validation in the device driver. An attacker can trick a user into installing a malicious Android application with root privileges, which then sends a crafted parameter to the driver. This can lead to a system reboot or arbitrary code execution. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), the vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L), but can result in high impact to 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 beyond a single mention.
| 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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.