Security Advisory - Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Some Huawei Products

There is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the ioctl handlers of the Mediatek CMDQ driver. Local attackers can exploit this vulnerability to read and write to the system memory. Successful exploit may lead to local escalation of privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-03106)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-0069.

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-20200527-01-mtk-en