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There is a vulnerability that Huawei smartphone user backup information can be obtained by brute forcing the password for encrypting the backup. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-08102)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5263.
Huawei has released software updates to fix these vulnerabilities. This advisory is available at the following link:
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20190821-01-backup-en
Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
HiSuite |
9.1.0.305 and earlier versions |
9.1.0.306 |
9.1.0.305(MAC) and earlier versions |
9.1.0.312 |
|
HwBackup |
Earlier versions before 9.1.1.308 |
9.1.1.308 |
Huawei smartphone user backup information can be obtained by brute forcing the password for encrypting the backup.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.1 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
Attackers have access to smartphone users' encrypted backup data.
Vulnerability details:
Huawei smartphone user backup information can be obtained by brute forcing short password for encrypting the backup.
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 a security researcher.
2019-08-21 V1.0 INITIAL
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