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Improper Authentication

CVE-2018-7910

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

Some Huawei smartphones ALP-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), ALP-TL00B 8.0.0.118D(C01), BLA-AL00B 8.0.0.118D(C00), BLA-L09C 8.0.0.127(C432), 8.0.0.128(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432), BLA-L29C 8.0.0.129(C432), 8.0.0.137(C432) have an authentication bypass vulnerability. When the attacker obtains the user's smartphone, the vulnerability can be used to replace the start-up program so that the attacker can obtain the information in the smartphone and achieve the purpose of controlling the smartphone.

  • LOW
  • PHYSICAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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