Security Advisory - Exposed System Interface Vulnerability on Huawei Smart Phones

There is a exposed system interface vulnerability on smart phones. The software provides a system interface for interaction with external applications, but calling the interface is not properly restricted. An attacker could trick the user into installing a malicious application to call the interface and modify the system properties. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03004)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2735.

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-20170329-01-smartphone-en