There is an improper authentication vulnerability in Huawei smartphones (Y9, Honor 8X, Honor 9 Lite, Honor 9i, Y6 Pro). The applock does…

Description

There is an improper authentication vulnerability in Huawei smartphones (Y9, Honor 8X, Honor 9 Lite, Honor 9i, Y6 Pro). The applock does not perform a sufficient authentication in a rare condition. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to use the application locked by applock in an instant.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.22% · top 87% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.

Weakness

• Improper Authentication
• CWE-287 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-287 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Y9, Honor 8X, Honor 9 Lite, Honor 9i, Y6 Pro

  • affected Versions earlier than 9.1.0.131(C432E6R1P5T8),Versions earlier than 9.1.0.139(C636E6R1P5T8),Versions earlier than 9.1.0.217(C00E15R3P2T8),Versions earlier than 9.1.0.237(C432E1R3P2T8),Versions earlier than 9.1.0.237(C636E2R4P1T8),Versions earlier than 9.1.0.124(C00E112R2P10T8),Versions earlier than 9.1.0.136(C636E5R1P5T8),Versions earlier than 9.1.0.115(C00E113R1P6T8),Versions earlier than 9.1.0.122(C636E4R1P4T8),Versions earlier than 9.1.0.248(C636E5R3P1)

References (1)

• https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20191204-01-smartphone-en (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 19:47 UTC.