CVE-2024-39672 Use after free in EMUI

What is CVE-2024-39672?

CVE-2024-39672 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Huawei Emui, published on 25 Jul 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Memory request logic vulnerability in the memory module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will affect integrity and availability.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-39672?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Huawei Emui, Huawei Harmonyos.

How do I fix CVE-2024-39672?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-39672 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-2024-39672 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-39672 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-5p3h-jv56-rj58.