CVE-2022-46311 Use after free in HarmonyOS

What is CVE-2022-46311?

CVE-2022-46311 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos, published on 20 Dec 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The contacts component has a free (undefined) provider vulnerability. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect data integrity.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-46311?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Huawei Harmonyos.

How do I fix CVE-2022-46311?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-46311 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2022-46311 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-46311 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-gvmx-rq6c-5qv2.