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Security Advisory - Huawei PC Product Vulnerable to Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

  • SA No:huawei-sa-HPPVtIRoOwtBoaMB-bb3261bd
  • Initial Release Date: 2024-04-17
  • Last Release Date: 2024-04-17

A Huawei PC product is vulnerable to improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could compromise SMRAM memory, resulting in code execution in SMM.(Vulnerability ID:HWPSIRT-2023-11450)
This vulnerability has been assigned a (CVE)ID:CVE-2023-52548

Affected Product

Affected Version

Repair Version

CurieM-WFG9B
 - CurieM-WFG9B

OTA-CurieM-B-BIOS-2.28

CurieM-WFG9B BIOS 2.32


HWPSIRT-2023-11450: 

Successful exploitation could lead to code execution in SMM.

Vulnerabilities are scored base on the CVSS v3.1 scoring system. For details please refer to: https://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document.

HWPSIRT-2023-11450:

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.8

Environmental Score: NA

CVSS v3.1 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:X/RL:X/RC:X

HWPSIRT-2023-11450:

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

A memory buffer is specifically crafted.

Technical details:

A Huawei PC product has a vulnerability due to improper memory buffer boundary operation restrictions. Malicious attackers can exploit this vulnerability to damage the SMRAM memory. Successful exploitation may lead to code execution in the SMM.

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

HWPSIRT-2023-11450:

The vulnerability was reported by an external researcher under the Bug Bounty Program.

2024-04-17 V1.0 Initial Release;

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