A vulnerability has been found in Huawei Product (Smartphone Operating System) (affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a release of resource vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-772. The product does not release a resource after its effective lifetime has ended, i.e., after the resource is no longer needed. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

Some Huawei products have a memory leak vulnerability when handling some messages. A remote attacker with operation privilege could exploit the vulnerability by sending specific messages continuously. Successful exploit may cause some service to be abnormal.

The weakness was disclosed 11/13/2019. This vulnerability was named CVE-2019-5293 since 01/04/2019. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation needs a single authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 02/14/2024). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entry VDB-145553 is pretty similar.

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• Huawei

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