CVE-2023-52540 Auth bypass in EMUI

What is CVE-2023-52540?

CVE-2023-52540 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Huawei Emui, published on 8 Apr 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vulnerability of improper authentication in the Iaware module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will affect availability.

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-52540?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Huawei Emui, Huawei Harmonyos.

How do I fix CVE-2023-52540?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-52540 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2023-52540 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52540 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
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Also known as GHSA-5c83-88f2-q34h.