CVE-2018-7988

low-risk
Published 2018-11-27

There is a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass vulnerability on several smartphones. The system does not sufficiently verify the permission, an attacker uses a data cable to connect the smartphone to another smartphone and then perform a series of specific operations. Successful exploit could allow the attacker bypass the FRP protection.

Do I need to act?

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0.02% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 4.6/10 Medium
PHYSICAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Nova 2 Plus Firmware
Mate 9 Pro Firmware

Affected Vendors

23
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low-risk
Severity 16/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low