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CVE-2022-44549 (GCVE-0-2022-44549)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-09 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-01 14:38
VLAI
Summary
The LBS module has a vulnerability in geofencing API access. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause third-party apps to access the geofencing APIs without authorization, affecting user confidentiality.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-01 14:38 UTC
CWE
  • Geofencing API access vulnerability
  • CWE-862 - Missing Authorization
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Huawei HarmonyOS Affected: 2.0
Affected: 2.1
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Huawei EMUI Affected: 12.0.1
Affected: 12.0.0
Affected: 11.0.1
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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.


Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.