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CVE-2021-22385
A component of the Huawei smartphone has a External Control of System or Configuration Setting vulnerability. Local attackers may exploit…
High7.8EPSS 0.20%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- huawei
Description
A component of the Huawei smartphone has a External Control of System or Configuration Setting vulnerability. Local attackers may exploit this vulnerability to cause Kernel Code Execution.
Timeline
ID reserved
By huawei
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
- External Control of System or Configuration Setting
- CWE-668 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-668 and its CVEs
Affected products
EMUI;Magic UI;HarmonyOS
- affected EMUI 11.0.0,EMUI 10.1.1,EMUI 10.1.0
- affected Magic UI 4.0.0,Magic UI 3.1.1,Magic UI 3.1.0
- affected HarmonyOS 2.0
References (2)
- https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2021/6/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://device.harmonyos.com/cn/docs/security/update/oem_security_update_phone_202106-0000001165452077 (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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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2021-22385)Record last updated .