CVE-2021-37116
Published: 03 January 2022
Summary
CVE-2021-37116 is a critical-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked at the 46.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-23692
Vulnerability details
PCManager has a Weaknesses Introduced During Design vulnerability .Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause that the PIN of the subscriber is changed.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.
Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.
Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.
Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.