Security Advisory - Unquoted Service Path Vulnerability in Huawei UTPS Software

Huawei Unified Terminal PC suite (UTPS), also known as Mobile Partner, runs on the PC side to manage data cards. It provides data card setting, dial-up setting, message sending and receiving, and contacts management functions.

Huawei UTPS has an unquoted service path vulnerability which can lead to the truncation of UTPS service query paths. An attacker may put an executable file in the search path of the affected service and obtain elevated privileges after the executable file is executed. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-09012)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2016-8769.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

<http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20161116-01-utps-en&gt;