Huawei HarmonyOS System Tool deserialization

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Huawei HarmonyOS. This affects an unknown function of the component System Tool. Such manipulation leads to deserialization. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2022-41596. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS (the affected version unknown). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component System Tool. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a deserialization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-502. The product deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The system tool has inconsistent serialization and deserialization. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will cause unauthorized startup of components.

The weakness was disclosed 12/21/2022. The advisory is available at consumer.huawei.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-41596 since 09/27/2022. 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 04/17/2025).

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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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.5

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Deserialization
CWE: CWE-502 / CWE-20
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

09/27/2022 🔍
12/21/2022 +85 days 🔍
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04/17/2025 +847 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: consumer.huawei.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2022-41596 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2022-41596
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-216422

Entryinfo

Created: 12/21/2022 09:02
Updated: 04/17/2025 00:15
Changes: 12/21/2022 09:02 (36), 01/21/2023 13:23 (11), 04/17/2025 00:15 (17)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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