CVE-2017-8153

high

Published 2017-11-22 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

7.1

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.1

Description

Huawei VMall (for Android) with the versions before 1.5.8.5 have a privilege elevation vulnerability due to improper design. An attacker can trick users into installing a malicious app which can send out HTTP requests and execute JavaScript code in web pages without obtaining the Internet access permission. Successful exploit could lead to resource occupation or information leak.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

70%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
huawei	vmall	`{"endExcluding":"1.5.8.5"}`	`1.5.8.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-275

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.