A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI (affected version unknown). Affected is an unknown functionality of the component Email Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Vulnerability of file path verification being bypassed in the email module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.

The advisory is available at consumer.huawei.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2023-52544 since 02/27/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. 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 11/04/2024). 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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