CVE-2023-39408 Denial of service in EMUI

What is CVE-2023-39408?

CVE-2023-39408 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Emui, published on 25 Sep 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

DoS vulnerability in the PMS module. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause the system to restart.

Weakness: CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-39408?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Huawei Emui, Huawei Harmonyos.

How do I fix CVE-2023-39408?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-39408 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-2023-39408 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-39408 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Emui

• CVE-2023-52370 Memory corruption in EMUI Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-52378 Business logic in EMUI Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-52381 Code injection in EMUI Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-52103 Memory corruption in EMUI Critical 9.8
• CVE-2023-46773 Privilege escalation in EMUI Critical 9.8

All Huawei Emui vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-mw9w-mmw2-ghm9.