Security Advisory - Denial of Service Vulnerability in Several Smartphones

There is a denial of service vulnerability in several smartphones. The system does not properly check the status of certain module during certain operations, an attacker should trick the user into installing a malicious application, successful exploit could cause reboot of the smartphone. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-06133)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1785.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link:

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200102-03-smartphone-en