Security Advisory - Use-after-free Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phone
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200916-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: 2020-09-16
- Last Release Date: 2020-09-16
There is a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in some Huawei smart phone. An authenticated, local attacker may perform specific operations to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege and compromise the service. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-03109)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9084.
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-20200916-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Taurus-AN00B |
Versions earlier than 10.1.0.156(C00E155R7P2) |
10.1.0.156(C00E155R7P2) |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can obtain a higher privilege and compromise the service.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 6.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Temporal Score: 6.0 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker should trick a user to install a malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
There is a use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in some Huawei smart phone. An authenticated, local attacker may perform specific operations to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to obtain a higher privilege and compromise the service.
This vulnerability was reported to Huawei PSIRT by 360 Alpha Lab. Huawei would like to thank them for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
2020-09-16 V1.0 INITIAL
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