Security Advisory - Improper Authentication Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200610-02-phone
- Initial Release Date: 2020-06-10
- Last Release Date: 2020-06-10
There is an improper authentication vulnerability in some Huawei smartphones. Due to the identity of the message sender is not properly verified, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability through man-in-the-middle attack to induce user to access malicious URL. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-12132)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9076.
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-20200610-02-phone-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) |
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HUAWEI P30 Pro |
Versions earlier than 10.1.0.135(C00E135R2P8) |
10.1.0.135(C00E135R2P8) |
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Versions earlier than 10.1.0.135(C01E135R2P8) |
10.1.0.135(C01E135R2P8) |
|
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Tony-AL00B |
Versions earlier than 10.1.0.137(C00E137R2P11) |
10.1.0.137(C00E137R2P11) |
Successful exploit may cause the victim to access a malicious URL.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 3.1 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 2.9 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
Attackers can gain access to the device network.
Vulnerability details:
There is an improper authentication vulnerability in some Huawei smartphones. Due to the identity of the message sender is not properly verified, an attacker can exploit this vulnerability through man-in-the-middle attack to induce user to access malicious URL.
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.
2020-06-10 V1.0 INITIAL
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