Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Push Module of Huawei Smart Phone

There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in Push module of Huawei Smart Phone. An attacker tricks a user to save a rich media into message on the smart phone, which could be exploited to cause the attacker to delete message or fake user to send message. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-05070)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2707.

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-20170712-02-push-en