CVE-2020-1880 Denial of service in Lion-AL00C

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

An attacker can cause a denial of service on Huawei Lion-AL00C devices by sending a specially crafted file due to insufficient input validation.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-1880?

CVE-2020-1880 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Lion-AL00C, published on 27 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Huawei smartphone Lion-AL00C with versions earlier than 10.0.0.205(C00E202R7P2) have a denial of service vulnerability. An attacker crafted specially file to the affected device. Due to insufficient input validation of the value when executing the file, successful exploit may cause device abnormal.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-1880?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Huawei Lion-Al00c Firmware.

How do I fix CVE-2020-1880?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-1880 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-2020-1880 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1880 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-34gx-cprw-qgmf.

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