Security Advisory - Insufficient Authentication Vulnerability in Several Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20191023-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Oct 23, 2019
- Last Release Date: Oct 23, 2019
There is an insufficient authentication vulnerability on several smartphones. The system has a logic judge error under certain scenario. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify the alarm clock settings after a serious of uncommon operations without unlock the screen lock. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-03114)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5213.
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-20191023-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Honor play |
Versions earlier than Cornell-AL00A 9.1.0.321(C00E320R1P1T8) |
Cornell-AL00A 9.1.0.321(C00E320R1P1T8) |
Successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify the alarm clock settings after a serious of uncommon operations without unlock the screen lock.
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:L/A:N)
Temporal Score: 2.3 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker gets the phone.
Vulnerability details:
The system has a logic judge error under certain scenario. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to modify the alarm clock settings after a serious of uncommon operations without unlock the screen lock.
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 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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