CVE-2025-48902 Denial of service in EMUI
Attackers can cause denial of service in Huawei EMUI and HarmonyOS via uncontrolled resource usage in the settings module.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-48902?
CVE-2025-48902 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Emui, published on 6 Jun 2025. 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 uncontrolled system resource applications in the setting module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Weakness: CWE-118
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-48902?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Huawei Emui, Huawei Harmonyos.
How do I fix CVE-2025-48902?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-48902 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-2025-48902 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-48902 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Huawei Emui
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fx42-f4v4-hcj3.