Security Advisory - Information Leakage Vulnerability on Some Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20190218-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2019-02-18
- Last Release Date: 2019-02-18
There is an information leak vulnerability in some Huawei phones. When a local attacker use the camera of a smartphone, the attacker can exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information by performing a series of operations. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-01101)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5281.
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-20190218-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Huawei Y9 2019 |
Version Earlier Than Jackman-L21 8.2.0.155(C185R1P2) |
Jackman-L21 8.2.0.155(C185R1P2) |
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.6 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Overall Score: 4.3
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker has got the smartphone.
Vulnerability details:
When a local attacker use the camera of a smartphone, the attacker can exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information by performing a series of operations.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
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