A vulnerability was found in Huawei Honor V10 up to 9.0.0. It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Huawei Honor V10 smartphones versions earlier than Berkeley-AL20 9.0.0.125(C00E125R2P14T8) have an authorization bypass vulnerability. Due to improper authorization implementation logic, attackers can bypass certain authorization scopes of smart phones by performing specific operations. This vulnerability can be exploited to perform operations beyond the scope of authorization.

The bug was discovered 01/31/2019. The weakness was shared 06/06/2019 (Website). The advisory is shared at huawei.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-5295 since 01/04/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1548.002 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 126 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

Upgrading to version 9.0.0.125(C00E125R2P14T8) eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Honor V10

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• 9.0

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• commercial

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