VDB-210928 · CVE-2022-41593 · GCVE-0-2022-41593

Huawei HarmonyOS Fingerprint Trusted Application heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Fingerprint Trusted Application. Executing a manipulation can lead to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2022-41593. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Huawei HarmonyOS (the affected version is unknown) and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the component Fingerprint Trusted Application. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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(). As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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 presented 10/15/2022. The advisory is shared for download at consumer.huawei.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2022-41593 since 09/27/2022. 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 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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Productinfo

Type

Smartphone Operating System

Vendor

Huawei

Name

HarmonyOS

License

commercial

Website

Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.5

VulDB Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Temp Score: 5.5
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NVD Base Score: 3.4
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

09/27/2022 🔍
10/14/2022 +17 days 🔍
10/15/2022 +0 days 🔍
05/15/2025 +943 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: consumer.huawei.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-41593 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-41593
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-210928

Entryinfo

Created: 10/15/2022 00:05
Updated: 05/15/2025 01:54
Changes: 10/15/2022 00:05 (37), 11/08/2022 14:12 (11), 05/15/2025 01:54 (16)
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