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CVE-2021-37086 (GCVE-0-2021-37086)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-07 16:05 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:09
VLAI
Summary
There is a Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may lead to attackers which can isolate and read synchronization files of other applications across the UID sandbox.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Improper Preservation of Permissions vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Huawei HarmonyOS Affected: 2.0
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