Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-57956

Memory Safety in Huawei Harmonyos 5.0.0

Published
06 February 2025
Modified
17 March 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 2.8
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0021 11th percentile
Risk Priority 25 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-57956 is a low-severity Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow (CWE-680) vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos. Its CVSS base score is 2.8 (Low).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 11th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SA-11 (Developer Testing and Evaluation) and SA-15 (Development Process, Standards, and Tools) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2024-57956 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CWE-680, CWE-125) in the interpreter string module. Published on 2025-02-06, it carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 2.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L) and has been disclosed in a Huawei consumer security bulletin.

Exploitation requires local access, low attack complexity, low privileges, and user interaction from the target user. A successful attack can affect system availability with low impact, such as causing a partial denial of service.

Huawei's security bulletin at https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2025/2/ provides details on the vulnerability and recommended mitigations or patches.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the interpreter string module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services Lateral Movement
Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network.
T1211 Exploitation for Stealth Stealth
Adversaries may exploit vulnerabilities to evade detection by hiding activity, suppressing logging, or operating within trusted or unmonitored components.
T1212 Exploitation for Credential Access Credential Access
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to collect credentials.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

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Affected Assets

huawei
harmonyos
5.0.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Developer testing and analysis (static, dynamic, fuzzing) finds integer-overflow-to-allocation defects before deployment.

Mandates documented development standards and tools that enforce secure coding rules against unsafe integer arithmetic.

Requires engineering principles such as safe arithmetic and bounds-checked allocation that directly stop integer overflow during memory-size computation.

Process isolation confines the effects of an out-of-bounds read to the compromised process.

Validates untrusted size/offset inputs before they reach allocation calculations, structurally blocking the integer overflow path.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure SDLC practices directly prevent integer-overflow flaws during development, but eliminating only this CWE covers only part of the broad control intent.

ID.RA-01 partial match
prevents

Vulnerability scanning and recording can discover instances of out-of-bounds reads after code is deployed.

PR.PS-02 partial match
prevents

Routine patching replaces vulnerable code containing out-of-bounds read flaws.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

finds

Security testing can detect integer-overflow-to-buffer-overflow conditions during development.

A.8.15 Logging partial match
finds

Logging can record evidence of an out-of-bounds read but does not prevent the weakness itself.

prevents

Secure development life cycle mandates practices that can catch integer overflows before deployment.

prevents

Application security requirements can specify safe integer handling and bounds checking.

prevents

Secure architecture principles encourage use of safe arithmetic libraries and overflow detection.

prevents

Secure coding standards directly require prevention of integer overflows that lead to buffer overflows.

References