Security Advisory - Improper Authentication Vulnerability in Several Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200527-02-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2020-05-27
- Last Release Date: 2020-05-27
There is an improper authentication vulnerability in several smartphones. A logic error occurs when handling NFC work, an attacker should establish a NFC connection to the target phone, and then do a series of operations on the target phone. Successful exploit could allow a guest user do certain operation which is beyond the guest user's privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-08001)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1798.
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-20200527-02-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HUAWEI P30 |
Versions earlier than 10.1.0.135(C00E135R2P11) |
10.1.0.135(C00E135R2P11) |
Successful exploit could allow a guest user do certain operation which is beyond the guest user's privilege.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.3 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker should establish a NFC connection to the target phone, and then do a series of operations on the target phone.
Vulnerability details:
A logic error occurs when handling NFC work, an attacker should establish a NFC connection to the target phone, and then do a series of operations on the target phone. Successful exploit could allow a guest user do certain operation which is beyond the guest user's privilege.
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.
2020-05-27 V1.0 INITIAL
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