Huawei HarmonyOS Fingerprint Trusted Application heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Huawei HarmonyOS and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component Fingerprint Trusted Application. Performing a manipulation results in heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2022-41592. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Huawei HarmonyOS (the affected version unknown). This affects an unknown part of the component Fingerprint Trusted Application. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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(). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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 10/14/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at consumer.huawei.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-41592 since 09/27/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/15/2025).

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
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Timelineinfo

09/27/2022 🔍
10/14/2022 +17 days 🔍
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05/15/2025 +943 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: consumer.huawei.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-41592 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-41592
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-210927

Entryinfo

Created: 10/15/2022 00:03
Updated: 05/15/2025 01:54
Changes: 10/15/2022 00:03 (37), 11/08/2022 14:09 (11), 05/15/2025 01:54 (16)
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