CVE-2021-36990 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

There is a vulnerability of tampering with the kernel in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may escalate permissions.

Published: 2021-10-28

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

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	—

Huawei

Magic UI

affected

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

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	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:3.1.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:magic_ui:4.0.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-23566	There is a vulnerability of tampering with the kernel in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may escalate permissions.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00168.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

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

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Huawei Emui Magic Ui

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: huawei

Published: 2021-10-28T12:26:30.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-04T01:09:07.351Z

Reserved: 2021-07-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-36990

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-10-28T13:15:10.573

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:14:27.163

Link: CVE-2021-36990

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-276

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