Security Advisory - Improper Authentication Vulnerability in Smartphones
- SA No:huawei-sa-20200120-01-smartphone
- Initial Release Date: Jan 20, 2020
- Last Release Date: Jan 20, 2020
There is an improper authentication vulnerability in smartphones. Due to improperly validate of certain application, an attacker should trick the user into installing a malicious application to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the authentication to perform unauthorized operations. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-10065)
This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1812.
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-20200120-01-smartphone-en
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Product Name |
Affected Version |
Resolved Product and Version |
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HUAWEI P30 |
Versions earlier than 10.0.0.173(C00E73R1P11) |
10.0.0.173(C00E73R1P11) |
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 should trick the user into installing a malicious application.
Vulnerability details:
Due to improperly validate of certain application, an attacker should trick the user into installing a malicious application to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the authentication to perform unauthorized operations.
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.
2020-01-20 V1.0 INITIAL
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