CVE-2017-17172: Huawei Lyo-l21

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Huawei smart phones LYO-L21 with software LYO-L21C479B107, LYO-L21C479B107 have a privilege escalation vulnerability. An authenticated, local attacker can crafts malformed packets after tricking a user to install a malicious application and exploit this vulnerability when in the exception handling process. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege of the smart phones.

Affected products

• Huawei Lyo-l21

Published 2018-06-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.