Security Advisory - Improper Authentication Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20191030-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Oct 30, 2019
- Last Release Date: Oct 30, 2019
There is an improper authentication vulnerability in some Huawei smartphones. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to access specific components. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-07245)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5233.
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-20191030-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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Taurus-AL00B |
10.0.0.41(SP2C00E41R3P2) |
10.0.0.133(C00E132R5P1) |
By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker can access specific components.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 4.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
Temporal Score: 4.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
Overall Score: 4.1
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
The attacker has successfully tricked a user into installing the malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
There is an improper authentication vulnerability in some Huawei smartphones. Successful exploitation may cause the attacker to access specific components.
The product that supports automatic update will receive a system update prompt. You can install the update to fix the vulnerability.
This vulnerability was discovered by Huawei internal tester.
2019-10-30 V1.0 INITIAL
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