Security Advisory - FRP Bypass Vulnerability in Huawei Smart Phones

There is Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass security vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. When re-configuring the mobile phone using the factory reset protection (FRP) function, an attacker can login the configuration flow by Swype Keyboard and can perform some operations to update the Google account. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2017-07117)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2721.
Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170920-01-frpbypass-en