Huawei smart phones with software earlier than Vicky-AL00AC00B172D versions have a Factory Reset Protection (FRP) bypass security vulnerability. When re-configuring the mobile phone using the factory reset protection (FRP) function, an attacker can login the Talkback mode and can perform some operations to bypass the Google account verification. As a result, the FRP function is bypassed.

Related CVEs

CVE-2017-8171

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-w79h-25vh-6g7c

Published

May 13, 2022 1:47 AM

Last Modified

May 13, 2022 1:47 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: August 30, 2025 6:32 AM

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