CVE-2023-1693 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Settings module has the file privilege escalation vulnerability.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect confidentiality.

Published: 2023-05-20

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

Analysis and contextual insights are available on OpenCVE Cloud.

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

HarmonyOS

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`3.1.0`	affected	—

Huawei

EMUI

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`13.0.0`	affected	—
`11.0.1`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:11.0.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:13.0.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:huawei:harmonyos::::::::

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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-2023-23921	The Settings module has the file privilege escalation vulnerability.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect confidentiality.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00107.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2023/4/
https://device.harmonyos.com/en/docs/security/update/security-bulletins-202304-0000001506528486

History

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-276
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Huawei Emui Harmonyos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: huawei

Published: 2023-05-20T14:12:33.342Z

Updated: 2025-01-21T17:06:30.404Z

Reserved: 2023-03-29T09:29:51.236Z

Link: CVE-2023-1693

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:57:24.694Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-05-20T15:15:08.767

Modified: 2025-01-21T17:15:12.910

Link: CVE-2023-1693

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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