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Security Advisory - Information Leak Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20191030-01-phone
  • Initial Release Date: 2019-10-30
  • Last Release Date: 2020-01-02

Some Huawei mobile phones have an information leak vulnerability. Due to improper function error records of some module, an attacker with the access permission may exploit the vulnerability to obtain some information. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-04053)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5292.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20191030-01-phone-en



Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

HUAWEI Mate 20

Versions earlier than EMUI9.1.0.135

EMUI9.1.0.135

HUAWEI P smart 2019

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.267(C432E2R2P1)

9.1.0.267(C432E2R2P1)

HUAWEI P30

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.193

9.1.0.193

HUAWEI Y6 2019

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.234(C185E5R4P1)

9.1.0.234(C185E5R4P1)

HUAWEI Y6 Pro 2019

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.234

9.1.0.234

HUAWEI nova 4

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.206(C185E1R1P1)

9.1.0.206(C185E1R1P1)

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.225(C636E1R4P1)

9.1.0.225(C636E1R4P1)

HUAWEI nova lite 3

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.305(C635E8R2P2)

9.1.0.305(C635E8R2P2)

Honor 10 Lite

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.266(C636E8R4P1)

9.1.0.266(C636E8R4P1)

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.269(C185E3R4P1)

9.1.0.269(C185E3R4P1)

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.269(C461E3R1P14)

9.1.0.269(C461E3R1P14)

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.273(C605E8R2P2)

9.1.0.273(C605E8R2P2)

Honor 8A

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.234(C301E6R5P1)

9.1.0.234(C301E6R5P1)



An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to obtain some information.


The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 3.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Temporal Score: 3.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

Overall Score: 3.1


This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:

An attacker obtain the access permission of the target phone.

Vulnerability details:

Some Huawei mobile phones have an information leak vulnerability. Due to improper function error records of some module, an attacker with the access permission may exploit the vulnerability to obtain some information.


The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.


2020-01-02 V1.1 UPDATED Assigned a CVE ID(CVE-2019-5292) to the vulnerability; Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;

2019-10-30 V1.0 INITIAL


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