CVE-2024-51513 Denial of service in HarmonyOS
Attackers can cause excessive power consumption by exploiting a flaw where VPN processes are not fully terminated in HarmonyOS.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-51513?
CVE-2024-51513 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos, published on 5 Nov 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
Vulnerability of processes not being fully terminated in the VPN module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will affect power consumption.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-51513?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Huawei Harmonyos.
How do I fix CVE-2024-51513?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-51513 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-2024-51513 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-51513 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Harmonyos
Sources
Also known as GHSA-8g7m-2r7v-c9gx.