Local privilege escalation exposing confidential service data
Published Jan 8, 2025 · Updated Jan 8, 2025
Privilege escalation in the Account module in affected Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI releases allows local users to access confidential service data. Huawei has not published the Account module locus or the incorrect operation responsible for the privilege transition. Exploitation requires local low-privilege access and no user interaction; the documented consequence is exposure of confidential service data.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in the Account module in affected Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI releases allows local users to access confidential service data. Huawei has not published the Account module locus or the incorrect operation responsible for the privilege transition. Exploitation requires local low-privilege access and no user interaction; the documented consequence is exposure of confidential service data.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-56449
- Published
- Jan 8, 2025
- Updated
- Jan 8, 2025
- Vendor
- MindSpore
- Product
- HarmonyOS
- Classifications
- CWE-840, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jan 8, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 8, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.0.0
- Affected versionversion=2.1.0
- Affected versionversion=3.0.0
- Affected versionversion=3.1.0
- Affected versionversion=4.0.0
- Affected versionversion=4.2.0
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