CVE-2023-52955 Auth bypass in EMUI

Medium 6.5 Published 8 Jan 2025 Updated 8 Jan 2025

Improper authentication in Huawei EMUI and HarmonyOS allows attackers to bypass security checks, causing abnormal feature behavior.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2023-52955?

CVE-2023-52955 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Huawei Emui, published on 8 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Vulnerability of improper authentication in the ANS system service module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause features to perform abnormally.

Weakness: CWE-287, CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-52955?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Huawei Emui, Huawei Harmonyos.

How do I fix CVE-2023-52955?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-52955 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-2023-52955 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-52955 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Huawei Emui vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-xc39-v86c-vh9g.