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There is an improper authentication vulnerability in smartphones. Certain application does not properly validate the identity of another application who would call its interface, an attacker should trick the user into installing a malicious application, successful exploit could allow unauthorized actions leading to information disclosure. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-11112)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1788.
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-20200115-02-smartphone-en
Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
Honor V30 |
Versions earlier than 10.0.1.135(C00E130R4P1) |
10.0.1.135(C00E130R4P1) |
HUAWEI P30 |
Versions earlier than 10.0.0.185(C01E85R1P11) |
10.0.0.185(C01E85R1P11) |
HUAWEI Mate 30 |
Versions earlier than 10.0.0.203(C00E201R7P2) |
10.0.0.203(C00E201R7P2) |
Successful exploit could allow unauthorized actions leading to information disclosure.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker should trick the user into installing a malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
Certain application does not properly validate the identity of another application who would call its interface, an attacker should trick the user into installing a malicious application, successful exploit could allow unauthorized actions leading to information disclosure.
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 an external security researcher. Huawei would like to thank the researcher for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2020-03-18 V1.1 UPDATED Updated the "Software Versions and Fixes" section;
2020-01-15 V1.0 INITIAL
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