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Security Advisory - Race Condition Vulnerability on Several Smartphones

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20190116-01-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: Jan 16, 2019
  • Last Release Date: Jan 16, 2019

There is a race condition vulnerability on certain driver of smartphone. An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application, which make multiple processes to operate the same variate at the same time. Successful exploit could cause execution of malicious code. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-11161)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5216.

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-20190116-01-smartphone-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

Honor V10

Versions earlier than Berkeley-AL20 9.0.0.156(C00E156R2P14T8)

Berkeley-AL20 9.0.0.156(C00E156R2P14T8)

Honor 10

Versions earlier than Columbia-AL10B 9.0.0.156(C00E156R1P20T8)

Columbia-AL10B 9.0.0.156(C00E156R1P20T8)

Honor Play

Versions earlier than Cornell-AL00A 9.0.0.156(C00E156R1P13T8)

Cornell-AL00A 9.0.0.156(C00E156R1P13T8)


Successful exploit could cause execution of malicious code.


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

Base Score: 7.0 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Temporal Score: 6.5 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)


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

An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application.

Vulnerability details:

An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application, which make multiple processes to operate the same variate at the same time. Successful exploit could cause execution of malicious code.


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

This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by Peter Pi of Tencent Blade Team. Huawei would like to thank Peter Pi for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.


2019-01-16 V1.0 INITIAL


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