Security Advisory - Insufficient Authentication Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200115-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jan 15, 2020
- Last Release Date: Jan 15, 2020
There is an insufficient authentication vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. A local attacker with high privilege can execute a specific command to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause information leak and compromise the availability of the smart phones. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-06030)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1840.
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-20200115-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HUAWEI Mate 20 |
Versions earlier than 10.0.0.175(C00E70R3P8) |
10.0.0.175(C00E70R3P8) |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can cause information leak and compromise the availability of the smart phones.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker has successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious application which has a high privilege.
Vulnerability details:
There is an insufficient authentication vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. A local attacker with high privilege can execute a specific command to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause information leak and compromise the availability of the smart phones.
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 Huawei internal tester.
2020-01-15 V1.0 INITIAL
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