CVE-2021-40017 (GCVE-0-2021-40017)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-16 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:27
VLAI
Summary
The HW_KEYMASTER module lacks the validity check of the key format. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in out-of-bounds memory access.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Out-of-bounds memory access vulnerability
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a HarmonyOS;EMUI Affected: HarmonyOS 2.0
Affected: EMUI 12.0.0,EMUI 11.0.1
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