CVE-2017-5948 Information

Description

An issue was discovered on OnePlus One X 2 3 and 3T devices. OxygenOS and HydrogenOS are vulnerable to downgrade attacks. This is due to a lenient ‘updater-script’ in OTAs that does not check that the current version is lower than or equal to the given image’s. Downgrades can occur even on locked bootloaders and without triggering a factory reset allowing for exploitation of now-patched vulnerabilities with access to user data. This vulnerability can be exploited by a Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) attacker targeting the update process. This is possible because the update transaction does not occur over TLS (CVE-2016-10370). In addition a physical attacker can reboot the phone into recovery and then use ‘adb sideload’ to push the OTA (on OnePlus 3/3T ‘Secure Start-up’ must be off).

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Reference

https://alephsecurity.com/vulns/aleph-2017008

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.9