CVE-2024-42038 Auth bypass in EMUI
Attackers can bypass screen lock PIN verification, compromising device confidentiality, integrity, and availability on Huawei devices.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-42038?
CVE-2024-42038 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Huawei Emui, published on 8 Aug 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Vulnerability of PIN enhancement failures in the screen lock module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Weakness: CWE-287
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-42038?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Huawei Emui, Huawei Harmonyos.
How do I fix CVE-2024-42038?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-42038 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-2024-42038 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-42038 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Emui
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c2fg-vqvf-qqcj.