Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-41303

HighRCE

Published: 25 September 2023

Published
25 September 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0017 38.6th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-41303 is a high-severity Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 38.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Command injection vulnerability in the distributed file system module. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause variables in the sock structure to be modified.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

huawei
emui
12.0.0, 12.0.1, 13.0.0
huawei
harmonyos
2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 3.0.0, 3.1.0

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.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and developer training directly verify and enforce proper input validation, reducing exploitability of injection and malformed-data weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-20

Security testing and evaluation at multiple SDLC stages directly detects missing or flawed input validation, with the required remediation process ensuring fixes are applied.

addresses: CWE-20

Directly implements checks on information inputs to reject invalid data before processing.

addresses: CWE-20

Spam protection mechanisms perform filtering and detection on inbound/outbound messages, directly compensating for missing or weak input validation of unsolicited content.

References