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Security Advisory - Information Leak Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone

  • SA No:huawei-sa-20200909-04-smartphone
  • Initial Release Date: 2020-09-09
  • Last Release Date: 2020-09-09

There is an information vulnerability in Huawei smartphones. A module has a design error that is lack of control of input. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information. This can lead to information leak. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2018-03100) This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9239.

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-20200909-04-smartphone-en


Product Name

Affected Version

Resolved Product and Version

BLA-A09

8.0.0.123(C212)

8.0.0.123(C567)

Versions earlier than 8.0.0.123(C567)

Versions earlier than 8.0.0.123(C797)

8.0.0.123(C797)

BLA-TL00B

Versions earlier than 8.1.0.326(C01)

8.1.0.326(C01)

Berkeley-L09

Versions earlier than 8.0.0.163(C10)

8.0.0.163(C10)

Versions earlier than 8.0.0.163(C432)

8.0.0.163(C432)

Versions earlier than 8.0.0.163(C636)

8.0.0.163(C636)

Versions earlier than 8.0.0.172(C10)

8.0.0.172(C10)

Duke-L09

Duke-L09C10B187

DUK-L09 8.0.0.368(C10)

Duke-L09C432B189

DUK-L09 8.0.0.369(C432)

Duke-L09C636B189

DUK-L09 8.0.0.366(C636)

HUAWEI P20

Versions earlier than 8.0.1.16(C00)

8.0.1.16(C00)

HUAWEI P20 Pro

Versions earlier than 8.1.0.152(C00)

8.1.0.152(C00)

Jimmy-AL00A

Versions earlier than Jimmy-AL00AC00B172

Jimmy-AL00AC00B172

LON-L29D

LON-L29DC721B192

8.0.0.368(C721)

NEO-AL00D

Versions earlier than 8.1.0.172(C786)

8.1.0.172(C786)

Stanford-AL00

Stanford-AL00C00B123

STF-AL10 8.0.0.355(C00GT)

Toronto-AL00

Versions earlier than Toronto-AL00AC00B225

Toronto-AL00AC00B225

Toronto-AL00A

Versions earlier than Toronto-AL00AC00B225

Toronto-AL00AC00B225

Toronto-TL10

Versions earlier than Toronto-TL10C01B225

Toronto-TL10C01B225



Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information. This can lead to information leak.

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

Base Score: 3.3 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Temporal Score: 3.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)

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

Attackers are around the affected device.

Vulnerability details:

A module has a design error that is lack of control of input. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to obtain some information. This can lead to information leak.

The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.

This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by external security researcher.

2020-09-09 V1.0 INITIAL

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