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Security Advisory - Insufficient Input Validation Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20191225-01-validation
  • Initial Release Date: 2019-12-25
  • Last Release Date: 2020-07-01

There is an insufficient input validation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to incorrect input validation logic, a high-privilege attacker should bypass the device security detection mechanism, then modify the memory of the device by doing a series of operations. Successful exploit may lead to malicious code execution. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-09488)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-19398.

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-20191225-01-validation-en

Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

ALP-AL00B

Versions earlier than 10.0.0.143(C00E143R2P4)

10.0.0.143(C00E143R2P4)

Anne-AL00

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.126(C00E126R1P7T8)

9.1.0.126(C00E126R1P7T8)

BLA-AL00B

Versions earlier than 10.0.0.143(C00E143R2P4)

10.0.0.143(C00E143R2P4)

Berkeley-AL20

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.333(C00E333R2P1T8)

Berkeley-AL00 9.1.0.333(C00E333R2P1T8)

Berkeley-L09

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.350(C10E3R1P14T8)

9.1.0.350(C10E3R1P14T8)

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.350(C636E4R1P13T8)

9.1.0.350(C636E4R1P13T8)

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.351(C432E5R1P13T8)

9.1.0.351(C432E5R1P13T8)

Florida-AL20B

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.136(C00E121R1P6T8)

9.1.0.136(C00E121R1P6T8)

Florida-TL10B

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.136(C01E121R1P6T8)

9.1.0.136(C01E121R1P6T8)

HUAWEI P20 lite

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.246(C185E4R1P8T8)

9.1.0.246(C185E4R1P8T8)

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.246(C432E6R1P7T8)

9.1.0.246(C432E6R1P7T8)

HUAWEI nova 2s

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.210(C00E110R2P9T8)

9.1.0.210(C00E110R2P9T8)

HUAWEI nova 3e,HUAWEI P20 lite

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.246(C185E4R1P8T8)

9.1.0.246(C185E4R1P8T8)

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.246(C432E6R1P7T8)

9.1.0.246(C432E6R1P7T8)

Leland-AL10B

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.140(C00E120R2P10T8)

9.1.0.140(C00E120R2P10T8)

LelandP-AL10D

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.120(C00E113R1P6T8)

9.1.0.120(C00E113R1P6T8)

LelandP-L22C

Versions earlier than 9.1.0.133(C636E5R1P4T8)

9.1.0.133(C636E5R1P4T8)



Successful exploit may lead to malicious code execution.

The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).

Base Score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H) 

Temporal Score: 6.7 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C) 

Overall Score: 6.7

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

An attacker can gain access to the affected device.

Vulnerability details:

There is an insufficient input validation vulnerability in some Huawei products. Due to incorrect input validation logic, a high-privilege attacker should bypass the device security detection mechanism, then modify the memory of the device by doing a series of operations. Successful exploit may lead to malicious 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 discovered by Huawei internal tester.


2020-07-01 V1.2 UPDATED Updated summary, technique details, the affected version and fix version information

2020-01-20 V1.1 UPDATED Updated summary, technique details, the affected version and fix version information

2019-12-25 V1.0 INITIAL

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