CVE-2021-22490 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

There is a Permission verification vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect the device performance.

Published: 2021-10-28

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Huawei

EMUI

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`11.0.0`	affected	—
`10.1.1`	affected	—
`10.1.0`	affected	—

Huawei

Magic UI

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`4.0.0`	affected	—
`3.1.1`	affected	—
`3.1.0`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:10.1.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:10.1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:11.0.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:magic_ui:3.1.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:magic_ui:3.1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:magic_ui:4.0.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-9636	There is a Permission verification vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect the device performance.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00631.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2021/7/

History

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Subscriptions

Huawei Emui Magic Ui

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: huawei

Published: 2021-10-28T12:25:23.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:44:14.067Z

Reserved: 2021-01-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-22490

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-28T13:15:10.267

Modified: 2026-06-17T03:37:18.963

Link: CVE-2021-22490

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-287
Improper Authentication

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