Huawei HarmonyOS Fingerprint Trusted Application heap-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS (affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Fingerprint Trusted Application. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The phones have the heap overflow, out-of-bounds read, and null pointer vulnerabilities in the fingerprint trusted application (TA).Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect the fingerprint service.

The weakness was disclosed 10/15/2022. The advisory is shared for download at consumer.huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-41598 since 09/27/2022. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 11/08/2022).

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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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Remote: Partially

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09/27/2022 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: consumer.huawei.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-41598 (🔍)

Entryinfo

Created: 10/15/2022 00:08
Updated: 11/08/2022 14:28
Changes: 10/15/2022 00:08 (37), 11/08/2022 14:28 (11)
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