CVE-2019-5260 Denial of service in HUAWEI Y9 2019;Honor View 20
Attackers can cause device reboots via crafted TD-SCDMA messages from rogue base stations due to insufficient input validation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-5260?
CVE-2019-5260 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in HUAWEI Y9 2019;Honor View 20, published on 13 Dec 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Huawei smartphones HUAWEI Y9 2019 and Honor View 20 have a denial of service vulnerability. Due to insufficient input validation of specific value when parsing the messages, an attacker may send specially crafted TD-SCDMA messages from a rogue base station to the affected devices to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit may cause an infinite loop and the device to reboot.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-5260?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Huawei View 20 Firmware, Huawei Y9 2019 Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2019-5260?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-5260 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2019-5260 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-5260 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2x6m-qw3h-9vjw.