Security Advisory - FRP Bypass Vulnerability on Smartphones

There is a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass vulnerability on some Huawei smartphones. The system does not sufficiently verify the permission, an attacker uses a data cable to connect the smartphone to the computer and then perform some specific operations. Successful exploit could allow the attacker bypass the FRP protection to access the system setting page. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-04128)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2018-7991.

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-20180912-01-smartphone-en