Security Advisory - Insufficient Authentication Vulnerability in Some Huawei Smart Phones

There is an insufficient authentication vulnerability in some Huawei smart phones. A local attacker with high privilege can execute a specific command to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may cause information leak and compromise the availability of the smart phones. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-06030)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-1840.

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-20200115-01-smartphone-en