Security Advisory - Improper Authentication Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200513-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2020-05-13
- Last Release Date: 2020-05-13
There is an improper authentication vulnerability in some Huawei smartphones. The vulnerability is due to that when an user wants to do certain operation, the software insufficiently validate the user's identity. Attackers need to physically access the smartphone to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the limit of student mode function. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-08044)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9073.
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-20200513-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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P20 |
Versions earlier than 10.0.0.156(C00E156R1P4) |
10.0.0.156(C00E156R1P4) |
Successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the limit of student mode function.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 3.5 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
Temporal Score: 3.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Overall Score: 3.3
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker could access the victim's smartphone physically.
Vulnerability details:
There is an improper authentication vulnerability in some Huawei smartphones. The vulnerability is due to that when an user wants to do certain operation, the software insufficiently validate the user's identity. Attackers need to physically access the smartphone to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the limit of student mode function.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
2020-05-13 V1.0 INITIAL
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