CVE-2021-37085 Race condition in HarmonyOS
Medium 5.9
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2021-37085 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2021-37085 is a medium-severity 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-37085 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Huawei Harmonyos. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-37085/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-37085/index.md)
A race condition in Huawei HarmonyOS encoding allows attackers to cause a denial of service.
- 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-2021-37085?
CVE-2021-37085 is a medium-severity 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 Encoding timing vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to denial of service.
Weakness: CWE-362
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-37085?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Huawei Harmonyos.
How do I fix CVE-2021-37085?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-37085 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-37085 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-37085 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Harmonyos
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cg8x-pxqh-mr33.