Security Advisory - Permission Control Vulnerability in Smart Phones

Some Huawei Smart phones have a permission control vulnerability. Due to improper authorization on specific processes, an attacker with the root privilege of a mobile Android system can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information of the user. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-04123)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8216.

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-20170614-01-smartphone-en