Huawei HarmonyOS/EMUI Memory Management race condition

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI. It has been declared as critical. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Memory Management Module. Executing a manipulation can lead to race condition. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2025-54629. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI (version now known). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects some unknown processing of the component Memory Management Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a race condition vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is 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. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Race condition issue occurring in the physical page import process of the memory management module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service integrity.

The advisory is shared for download at consumer.huawei.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-54629 since 07/28/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 12/08/2025).

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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Exploitinginfo

Class: Race condition
CWE: CWE-362
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Timelineinfo

07/28/2025 CVE reserved
08/06/2025 +9 days Advisory disclosed
08/06/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
12/08/2025 +124 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: huawei.com

Advisory: consumer.huawei.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-54629 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-54629
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-318940

Entryinfo

Created: 08/06/2025 08:13
Updated: 12/08/2025 21:55
Changes: 08/06/2025 08:13 (61), 08/06/2025 15:54 (1), 12/08/2025 21:55 (11)
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