VDB-210929 · CVE-2022-41594 · GCVE-0-2022-41594

Huawei HarmonyOS Fingerprint Trusted Application heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS. It has been classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Fingerprint Trusted Application. The manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2022-41594. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS (unknown version) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Fingerprint Trusted Application. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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(). Impacted is 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 shared 10/15/2022. The advisory is shared at consumer.huawei.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-41594 since 09/27/2022. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price 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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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-2022-41594 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-41594
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-210929

Entryinfo

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