Security Advisory - Improper Validation Vulnerability in Several Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20190925-03-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Sep 25, 2019
- Last Release Date: Sep 25, 2019
There is an improper validation vulnerability on several smartphones. The system does not perform a properly validation of certain input models, an attacker could trick the user to install a malicious application then craft a malformed model , successful exploit could allow the attacker to get and tamper certain output data information. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-02010)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5230.
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-20190925-03-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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P20 Pro |
Versions earlier than Charlotte-AL00A 9.1.0.321(C00E320R1P1T8) |
Charlotte-AL00A 9.1.0.321(C00E320R1P1T8) |
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P20 |
Versions earlier than Emily-AL00A 9.1.0.321(C00E320R1P1T8) |
Emily-AL00A 9.1.0.321(C00E320R1P1T8) |
|
Mate RS |
Versions earlier than NEO-AL00D NEO-AL00 9.1.0.321(C786E320R1P1T8) |
NEO-AL00D NEO-AL00 9.1.0.321(C786E320R1P1T8) |
Successful exploit could allow the attacker to get and tamper certain output data information.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 7.1 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N)
Temporal Score: 6.6 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
The system does not perform a properly validation of certain input models, an attacker could trick the user to install a malicious application then craft a malformed model , successful exploit could allow the attacker to get and tamper certain output data information.
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 the security research from 360. Huawei would like to thank them for working with us and coordinated vulnerability disclosure to protect our customers.
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