Huawei HarmonyOS 5.0.1/5.1.0 Storage Management use after free

| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Huawei HarmonyOS 5.0.1/5.1.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Storage Management Module. The manipulation leads to use after free. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-58299. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Huawei HarmonyOS 5.0.1/5.1.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Storage Management Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a use after free vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-416. Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
Use After Free (UAF) vulnerability in the storage management module. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
It is possible to read the advisory at consumer.huawei.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-58299 since 08/28/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/16/2025).
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-33835). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.
Product
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Website
- Vendor: https://www.huawei.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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CVSSv3
VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.2VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.2
VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.8
VulDB Vector: 🔒
VulDB Reliability: 🔍
NVD Base Score: 5.5
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CNA Base Score: 8.4
CNA Vector (huawei): 🔒
CVSSv2
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Exploiting
Class: Use after freeCWE: CWE-416 / CWE-119
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ATT&CK: 🔒
Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No
Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
Interest: 🔍Active Actors: 🔍
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
0-Day Time: 🔒
Timeline
08/28/2025 CVE reserved10/11/2025 Advisory disclosed
10/11/2025 VulDB entry created
10/16/2025 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Vendor: huawei.comAdvisory: consumer.huawei.com
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2025-58299 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-58299
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-328031
EUVD: 🔒
Entry
Created: 10/11/2025 15:32Updated: 10/16/2025 20:29
Changes: 10/11/2025 15:32 (63), 10/11/2025 19:46 (1), 10/16/2025 20:29 (11)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103
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