Security Advisory - App Lock Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei Mobile Phones

App Lock is a function provided by the Phone Manager app to prevent unauthorized use of apps on mobile phones. Some Huawei mobile phones have an App Lock bypass vulnerability. An attacker could perform specific operations to bypass the App Lock to use apps on a target mobile phone temporarily. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-03159)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8206.

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-20170829-01-applock-en&gt;