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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component PMS. Executing a manipulation can lead to permission. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2023-46773. No exploit is available. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI (affected version not known). This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component PMS. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-275. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Permission management vulnerability in the PMS module. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause privilege escalation.

The weakness was published 12/06/2023. The advisory is shared for download at consumer.huawei.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2023-46773 since 10/26/2023. 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 12/30/2023). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1222.

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

Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Huawei

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• EMUI
• HarmonyOS

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

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