CVE-2025-21098 Liteos-A has an insecure storage of sensitive information vulnerability
A local attacker can leak sensitive information via an out-of-bounds read that bypasses permission checks in OpenHarmony.
- 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-2025-21098?
CVE-2025-21098 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openatom Openharmony, published on 4 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
in OpenHarmony v5.0.2 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause information leak through out-of-bounds read bypass permission check.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-21098?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Openatom Openharmony.
How do I fix CVE-2025-21098?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-21098 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-21098 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21098 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Openatom Openharmony
- CVE-2025-0303 Liteos_a has a buffer overflow vulnerability
- CVE-2025-0304 Liteos_a has an use after free vulnerability
- CVE-2024-47398 Liteos_a has an out-of-bounds write vulnerability
- CVE-2024-10074 Liteos_a has an use after free vulnerability
- CVE-2024-41157 Liteos-A has an use after free vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-93cm-jf33-5mcm.