Huawei HarmonyOS 5.0.0 Distributed Notification race condition

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS 5.0.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Distributed Notification Module. The manipulation results in race condition. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2024-54120. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS 5.0.0. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code of the component Distributed Notification Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-362. The product contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Race condition vulnerability in the distributed notification module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause features to perform abnormally.

The advisory is available at consumer.huawei.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-54120 since 11/29/2024. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Local access is required to approach this attack. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

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: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

11/29/2024 🔍
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01/14/2025 +6 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: consumer.huawei.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-54120 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-54120
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-290742

Entryinfo

Created: 01/08/2025 05:04
Updated: 01/14/2025 01:45
Changes: 01/08/2025 05:04 (62), 01/14/2025 01:45 (12)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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