Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200930-01-buffer
- Initial Release Date: Sep 30, 2020
- Last Release Date: Sep 30, 2020
Some Huawei products have a buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker induces users to install malicious applications and sends specially constructed packets to affected devices after obtaining the root permission. Successful exploit may cause code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-04125)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9123.
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-20200930-01-buffer-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HUAWEI P30 Pro |
Versions earlier than 10.1.0.160(C00E160R2P8) |
10.1.0.160(C00E160R2P8) |
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Versions earlier than 10.1.0.160(C01E160R2P8) |
10.1.0.160(C01E160R2P8) |
Successful exploit may cause code execution.
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:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Temporal Score: 6.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
1. The attacker needs to connect to the device locally.
Vulnerability details:
Some Huawei products have a buffer overflow vulnerability. An attacker induces users to install malicious applications and sends specially constructed packets to affected devices after obtaining the root permission. Successful exploit may cause code execution.
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 Pangu lab slipper. Huawei would like to thank Pangu lab for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2020-09-30 V1.0 INITIAL
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