Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-9144

Critical

Published: 13 January 2021

Published
13 January 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0025 49.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-9144 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Huawei Emui. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 49.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

There is a heap overflow vulnerability in some Huawei smartphone, attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause heap overflows due to improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer.

CWE(s)
CWE-787

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

huawei
emui
10.0.0, 10.1.0, 10.1.1, 11.0.0, 9.1.0
huawei
magic ui
2.1.1, 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 4.0.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

References