Security Advisory - DoS Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200902-03-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2020-09-02
- Last Release Date: 2020-09-02
There is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. The attacker can enter a large amount of text on the phone. Due to insufficient verification of the parameter, successful exploitation can impact the service. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-09107)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9083.
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-20200902-03-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HUAWEI Mate 20 |
Versions earlier than 10.1.0.163(C00E160R3P8) |
10.1.0.163(C00E160R3P8) |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can impact the service.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 2.4 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Temporal Score: 2.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attackers can access the smart phones.
Vulnerability details:
There is a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. The attacker can enter a large amount of text on the phone. Due to insufficient verification of the parameter, successful exploitation can impact the service.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by security researcher Ding Yicong. Huawei would like to thank Ding Yicong for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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