Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphones: Factory Reset Protection (FRP) Bypass

CVE-2017-8171 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:C/A:N

Huawei smart phones with software earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B172D versions have a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass security vulnerability. When re-configuring the mobile phone using the factory reset protection (FRP) function, an attacker can login the Talkback mode and can perform some operations to bypass the Google account verification. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed.

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