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CVE-2017-8160· NVD / CVE Program· CNA huawei

The Madapt Driver of some Huawei smart phones with software Earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B172 versions,Vicky-AL00CC768B122,Vicky-TL00AC01B167,

The Madapt Driver of some Huawei smart phones with software Earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B172 versions,Vicky-AL00CC768B122,Vicky-TL00AC01B167,Earlier than Victoria-AL00AC00B172 versions,Victoria-TL00AC00B123,Victoria-TL00AC01B167 has a use after free (UAF) vulnerability. An attacker can trick a user to install a malicious application which has a high privilege to exploit this vulnerability, Successful exploitation may cause arbitrary code execution.

HighCVSS 7.8 · v3.0—No exploit No fix recorded
Published
Nov 22, 2017
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.1% · 63th percentile
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Action score

31

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
31 / 40 · 7.8 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.1%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
huaweivicky-al00a firmware
huaweivicky-al00a
huaweivicky-al00c firmware
huaweivicky-al00c
huaweivicky-tl00a firmware
huaweivicky-tl00a
huaweivictoria-al00a firmware
huaweivictoria-al00a
huaweivictoria-tl00a firmware
huaweivictoria-tl00a

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • huawei vicky-al00a firmwarebefore vicky-al00ac00b172
  • huawei vicky-al00c firmwarevicky-al00cc768b122
  • huawei vicky-tl00a firmwarevicky-tl00ac01b167
  • huawei victoria-al00a firmwarebefore victoria-al00ac00b172_
  • huawei victoria-tl00a firmwarevictoria-tl00ac00b123
  • huawei victoria-tl00a firmwarevictoria-tl00ac01b167

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (huawei). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Vicky-AL00A,Vicky-AL00C,Vicky-TL00A,Victoria-AL00A,Victoria-TL00A

    • Earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B172 versions,Vicky-AL00CC768B122,Vicky-TL00AC01B167,Earlier than Victoria-AL00AC00B172 versions,Victoria-TL00AC00B123,Victoria-TL00AC01B167affected

Same product

huawei: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2017-15330The Flp Driver in some Huawei smartphones of the software Vicky-AL00AC00B124D, Vicky-AL00AC00B157D, Vicky-AL00AC00B167 has a double free vul
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Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Someone with local access to the system can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • A user must open a link or visit a page.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
high · the service can be disrupted
Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
High
Availability impact
High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

c
free(dev->buf);/* ... another thread is still running ... */process(dev->buf);

Fixed

c
lock(&dev->lock);free(dev->buf);dev->buf = NULL;unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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