CVE-2021-37037 Denial of service in EMUI

High 7.5 Published Updated

An invalid address access flaw in Huawei mobile operating systems allows attackers to cause device restarts, impacting availability.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2021-37037?

CVE-2021-37037 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Emui, published on 8 Dec 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

There is an Invalid address access vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause the device to restart.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-37037?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Huawei Emui, Huawei Harmonyos, Huawei Magic Ui.

How do I fix CVE-2021-37037?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-37037 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-2021-37037 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-37037 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Huawei Emui vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-jwp4-cwh4-pg3c.

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