CVE-2021-37058 Missing authorization in HarmonyOS

What is CVE-2021-37058?

CVE-2021-37058 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos, published on 7 Dec 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

There is a Permissions,Privileges,and Access Controls vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to the user's nickname is maliciously tampered with.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-37058?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Huawei Harmonyos.

How do I fix CVE-2021-37058?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-37058 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2021-37058 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-37058 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Harmonyos

• CVE-2026-34865 Memory corruption in HarmonyOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-34157 Other in HarmonyOS Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-41294 Denial of service in HarmonyOS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-48478 Denial of service in HarmonyOS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-48479 Memory corruption in HarmonyOS Critical 9.8

All Huawei Harmonyos vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-2vm6-24x2-fw9m.