Security Advisory - FRP Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei Smart Phones

There is Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass security vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. When re-configuring the mobile phone using the factory reset protection (FRP) function, an attacker can login the Swype and can perform some operations to update the Google account. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-08027)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-8161.

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-20171013-01-frpbypass-en