A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI (affected version not known) and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component NearLink Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Vulnerability of insufficient permission verification in the NearLink module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.

It is possible to read the advisory at consumer.huawei.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-5464 since 05/29/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/17/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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• EMUI
• HarmonyOS

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