Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-57957

Info Disclosure in Huawei Harmonyos 5.0.0

Published
06 February 2025
Modified
17 March 2025
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 6.6
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0032 24th percentile
Risk Priority 48 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2024-57957 is a medium-severity Violation of Secure Design Principles (CWE-657) vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos. Its CVSS base score is 6.6 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Unsecured Credentials (T1552); ranked at the 24th 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 AC-5 (Separation of Duties) and AC-6 (Least Privilege) — 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-2024-57957 is a vulnerability involving improper log information control in the UI framework module of Huawei devices. This flaw, associated with CWE-657 (Violation of Secure Design Principles) and CWE-532 (Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File), was published on February 6, 2025, and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.6 (AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

Exploitation requires physical access to the device (AV:P), low attack complexity, no privileges (PR:N), and user interaction (UI:R), such as tricking a user into performing a specific action. Successful attacks can result in high-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability consequences, with the primary effect being disruption to service confidentiality as sensitive log information is improperly controlled.

Huawei has issued a support bulletin detailing the vulnerability at https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2025/2/, which security practitioners should consult for mitigation guidance and available patches.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

Vulnerability of improper log information control in the UI framework module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1552 Unsecured Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may search compromised systems to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials.
T1552.001 Credentials In Files Credential Access
Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
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.
T1654 Log Enumeration Discovery
Adversaries may enumerate system and service logs to find useful data.
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

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)

Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 8 hardening rules · 5 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Explicitly requires application of security and privacy engineering principles throughout the lifecycle, structurally preventing their violation.

Separation of duties is a core secure design principle whose mandated implementation directly stops the violation from occurring.

Least privilege is a fundamental secure design principle whose enforcement prevents the violation from being introduced.

Mandates separation of user and system functionality, a classic secure design principle that stops the violation at design time.

Requires isolation of security functions, directly preventing violation of that established design principle.

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

Directly mandates integration of secure development practices including design principles across the SDLC.

GV.PO-01 partial match
prevents

Establishes risk-management policy that can embed secure design expectations at the organizational level.

PR.AA-05 partial match
prevents

Explicitly requires incorporating least privilege, one key secure design principle.

PR.PS-04 partial match
prevents

Log generation configuration can and should exclude sensitive data, but the control statement focuses on availability rather than content filtering.

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.

prevents

Secure system architecture and engineering principles are the explicit embodiment of the secure design principles violated by CWE-657.

A.8.15 Logging mostly match
prevents

Requiring de-identification and privacy controls before logs leave the organization reduces the chance that sensitive data inadvertently captured in logs becomes exposed to external parties.

degrades

A secure development life cycle directly requires adherence to established secure design principles.

finds

Security testing can detect violations of secure design principles before release.

mitigates

By defining what records must be kept, where, and for how long, the control discourages the inadvertent inclusion of sensitive information in logs or other externally accessible files that fall outside the formal record system.

prevents

Embedding security in project management helps enforce secure design principles from the outset.

Hardening callouts derived

Configuration rules from DISA STIG baselines that bear on weaknesses of the type cited by this CVE. Each rule is shown with the relationship its mapping actually records, against the CWE it was authored against. Derived via CVE→CWE over `controls_xwalks` (authoritative rows only; rows rated `none` are excluded).

Ubuntu 22.04 (1 rule)
  • V-260559 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS must ensure only users who need access to security functions are part of sudo group. prevents CWE-657
Ubuntu 24.04 (1 rule)
  • V-270748 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS must ensure only users who need access to security functions are part of sudo group. prevents CWE-657
Windows Server 2016 (2 rules)
  • V-224992 Domain Controller PKI certificates must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
  • V-224993 PKI certificates associated with user accounts must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
Windows Server 2019 (2 rules)
  • V-205646 Windows Server 2019 domain Controller PKI certificates must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
  • V-205647 Windows Server 2019 PKI certificates associated with user accounts must be issued by a DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
Windows Server 2022 (2 rules)
  • V-254413 Windows Server 2022 domain Controller PKI certificates must be issued by the DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657
  • V-254414 Windows Server 2022 PKI certificates associated with user accounts must be issued by a DoD PKI or an approved External Certificate Authority (ECA). prevents CWE-657

References