Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-52953

Medium

Published: 08 January 2025

Published
08 January 2025
Modified
13 January 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0013 31.4th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-52953 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos. Its CVSS base score is 6.2 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Data from Local System (T1005); ranked at the 31.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2023-52953 is a path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) in the Medialibrary module. Successful exploitation affects integrity and confidentiality, with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.2 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H). The vulnerability was published on 2025-01-08.

A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction. Exploitation leads to high-impact disruption of availability, alongside effects on integrity and confidentiality as stated in the description.

The Huawei consumer support bulletin provides details on mitigation: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2025/1/.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Path traversal vulnerability in the Medialibrary module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability will affect integrity and confidentiality.

CWE(s)
CWE-22

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1005 Data from Local System Collection
Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to find files of interest and sensitive data prior to Exfiltration.
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T1083 File and Directory Discovery Discovery
Adversaries may enumerate files and directories or may search in specific locations of a host or network share for certain information within a file system.
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T1070.004 File Deletion Stealth
Adversaries may delete files left behind by the actions of their intrusion activity.
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Why these techniques?

Path traversal (CWE-22) directly enables arbitrary local file read/write/delete operations without privileges, facilitating data access from the local system, file/directory discovery, and file deletion for availability impact.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

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Affected Assets

huawei
emui
12.0.0, 13.0.0
huawei
harmonyos
2.0.0, 2.1.0, 3.0.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

SI-2 Flaw Remediation good match
preventrecover

Directly remediates the specific path traversal flaw in the Medialibrary module through timely patching and flaw correction as detailed in the Huawei support bulletin.

SI-10 Information Input Validation good match
prevent

Prevents exploitation of the path traversal vulnerability by validating file path inputs to the Medialibrary module against traversal sequences like '../'.

SI-9 Information Input Restrictions partial match
prevent

Mitigates path traversal by restricting special characters and formats in inputs to the Medialibrary module that could enable directory traversal.

References