Security Advisory - Improper Access Control Vulnerability in Huawei Share
- SA No:huawei-sa-20191113-01-share
- Initial Release Date: Nov 13, 2019
- Last Release Date: Nov 13, 2019
There is an improper access control vulnerability in Huawei Share. The software does not properly restrict access to certain file from certain application. An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application then establishing a connect to the attacker through Huawei Share, successful exploit could cause information disclosure. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-04008)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5212.
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-20191113-01-share-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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P20 |
Versions earlier than Emily-L29C 9.1.0.311(C10E2R1P13T8) |
Emily-L29C 9.1.0.311(C10E2R1P13T8) |
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Versions earlier than Emily-L29C 9.1.0.311(C461E2R1P11T8) |
Emily-L29C 9.1.0.311(C461E2R1P11T8) |
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Versions earlier than Emily-L29C 9.1.0.311(C605E2R1P12T8) |
Emily-L29C 9.1.0.311(C605E2R1P12T8) |
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Versions earlier than Emily-L29C 9.1.0.311(C432E7R1P11T8) |
Emily-L29C 9.1.0.311(C432E7R1P11T8) |
Successful exploit could cause information disclosure.
The vulnerability classification has been performed by using the CVSSv3 scoring system (http://www.first.org/cvss/specification-document).
Base Score: 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Temporal Score: 5.1 (E:F/RL:O/RC:C)
This vulnerability can be exploited only when the following conditions are present:
An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application then establishing a connect to the attacker through Huawei Share.
Vulnerability details:
Huawei Share does not properly restrict access to certain file from certain application. An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application then establishing a connect to the attacker through Huawei Share, successful exploit could cause information disclosure.
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.
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