Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-17172 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Huawei Lyo-L21
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
LOW Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Huawei smart phones LYO-L21 with software LYO-L21C479B107, LYO-L21C479B107 have a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, local attacker can crafts malformed packets after tricking a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege of the smart phones.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Hardware | 1 | |
| OS | 2 |