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Security Advisory - Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Several Smartphones

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200902-07-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: Sep 02, 2020
  • Last Release Date: Sep 02, 2020

There is an information vulnerability in Huawei smartphones. A module has a design error that is lack of control of input. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information. This can lead to information leak. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-02156)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9235.

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-20200902-07-smartphone-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

HONOR 20 PRO

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.230(C432E9R5P1)

10.1.0.230(C432E9R5P1)

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.231(C10E3R3P2)

10.1.0.231(C10E3R3P2)

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.231(C185E3R5P1)

10.1.0.231(C185E3R5P1)

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.231(C636E3R3P1)

10.1.0.231(C636E3R3P1)

Honor View 20

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.212(C432E10R3P4)

10.1.0.212(C432E10R3P4)

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.213(C636E3R4P3)

10.1.0.213(C636E3R4P3)

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.214(C10E5R4P3)

10.1.0.214(C10E5R4P3)

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.214(C185E3R3P3)

10.1.0.214(C185E3R3P3)

OxfordS-AN00A

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.212(C00E210R5P1)

10.1.0.212(C00E210R5P1)

Princeton-AL10B

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.160(C00E160R2P11)

10.1.0.160(C00E160R2P11)

Princeton-AL10D

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.160(C00E160R2P11)

10.1.0.160(C00E160R2P11)

Princeton-TL10C

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.160(C01E160R2P11)

10.1.0.160(C01E160R2P11)

Tony-AL00B

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.160(C00E160R2P11)

10.1.0.160(C00E160R2P11)

Yale-AL00A

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.160(C00E160R8P12)

10.1.0.160(C00E160R8P12)

Yale-L21A

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.230(C432E9R5P1)

10.1.0.230(C432E9R5P1)

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.231(C10E3R3P2)

10.1.0.231(C10E3R3P2)

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.231(C636E3R3P1)

10.1.0.231(C636E3R3P1)

Yale-L61A

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.225(C431E3R1P2)

10.1.0.225(C431E3R1P2)

Versions earlier than 10.1.0.225(C432E3R1P2)

10.1.0.225(C432E3R1P2)




Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information. This can lead to information leak.


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:

Attackers are around the affected device.

Vulnerability details:

A module has a design error that is lack of control of input. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information. This can lead to 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 discovered by external security researcher.

2020-09-02 V1.0 INITIAL

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