Huawei Y9/Honor 8X/Honor 9 Lite/Honor 9i/Y6 Pro Applock weak authentication

A vulnerability was found in Huawei Y9, Honor 8X, Honor 9 Lite, Honor 9i and Y6 Pro. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Applock. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a weak authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 12/14/2019. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-5252 since 01/04/2019. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 12/14/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5

VulDB Base Score: ≈5.5
VulDB Temp Score: ≈5.5
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Class: Weak authentication (CWE-287)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Remediation: 🔍Recommended: no mitigation known

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01/04/2019 CVE assigned
12/14/2019 +344 days Advisory disclosed
12/14/2019 +0 days VulDB entry created
12/14/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateVendor: huawei.com
CVE: CVE-2019-5252 (🔒)Created: 12/14/2019 06:24 PM
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