A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS (affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality of the component Watchkit. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The Watchkit has a risk of unauthorized file access.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect confidentiality and integrity.

The weakness was disclosed 09/25/2023. The advisory is available at device.harmonyos.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-39407 since 07/31/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/14/2023). This vulnerability is assigned to T1006 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Huawei

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• HarmonyOS

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• commercial

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