A vulnerability was found in Huawei Y9 and Honor View 20 (version unknown). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component TD-SCDMA Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Huawei smartphones HUAWEI Y9 2019 and Honor View 20 have a denial of service vulnerability. Due to insufficient input validation of specific value when parsing the messages, an attacker may send specially crafted TD-SCDMA messages from a rogue base station to the affected devices to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit may cause an infinite loop and the device to reboot.

The weakness was published 12/13/2019. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-5260 since 01/04/2019. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to approached within the local network. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 03/12/2024).

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

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• Honor View 20
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