Security Advisory - Information Leak Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20190220-01-informationleak
- Initial Release Date: 2019-02-20
- Last Release Date: 2019-02-20
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5244.
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-20190220-01-informationleak-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Mate 9 Pro |
Earlier than LON-L29C 8.0.0.361(C636) versions |
Upgrade to LON-L29C 8.0.0.361(C636) |
Successful exploit could allow an attacker to read some process information, which may cause sensitive information leak.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Overall Score: 4.1
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install a crafted application.
Vulnerability details:
An attacker tricks the user who has root privilege to install an application on the smart phone, and the application can read some process information, which may cause sensitive information leak.
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 Alexander from Russia. Huawei would like to thank Alexander for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2019-02-20 V1.0 INITIAL
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