CVE-2020-9255 Denial of service in Honor 10
Attackers can cause denial of service on Huawei Honor 10 devices by tricking users into installing malicious applications that exploit insufficient parameter 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-2020-9255?
CVE-2020-9255 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Honor 10, published on 17 Jul 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 Honor 10 smartphones with versions earlier than 10.0.0.178(C00E178R1P4) have a denial of service vulnerability. Certain service in the system does not sufficiently validate certain parameter which is received, the attacker should trick the user into installing a malicious application, successful exploit could cause a denial of service condition.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-9255?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Huawei Honor 10 Firmware.
How do I fix CVE-2020-9255?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-9255 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-2020-9255 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-9255 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Honor 10
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fw45-wg5f-8735.