CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2017-17140 — Huawei Enjoy 5S Firmware security vulnerability

Medium CVSS 5.5

Huawei Enjoy 5s and Y6 Pro smartphones with software the versions before TAG-AL00C92B170; the versions before TIT-L01C576B121 have an information leak vulnerability due to the lack of parameter validation. An attacker tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone and the application can read some sensitive information in kernel memory which may cause sensitive information leak.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.0)
Published
2018-03-05
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Affected products

  • huawei / enjoy_5s_firmware
  • huawei / y6_pro_firmware

Matched remediation archetype

Information disclosure and sensitive data exposure

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Check exposure

  • Trace sensitive data through responses, errors, logs, metrics, traces, caches, exports, files, backups, and client bundles.
  • Identify affected subjects, tenants, retention windows, access controls, and downstream copies without opening unnecessary sensitive records.
  • Review metadata, timing, status, length, and existence signals as well as direct content disclosure.

Remediate safely

  • Minimize collection and output, apply field-level authorization and redaction at a centralized boundary, and return generic external errors.
  • Remove secrets and sensitive data from logs, artifacts, URLs, caches, and client-side bundles; rotate credentials that may have been exposed.
  • Update the affected component and add synthetic-data tests for response, error, observability, and export paths.

Authoritative sources

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