CVE-2025-68957
Published: 14 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68957 is a high-severity Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos. Its CVSS base score is 8.4 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 1.2th 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-2 (Flaw Remediation) and SC-39 (Process Isolation).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-68957 is a multi-thread race condition vulnerability (CWE-362) in the card framework module. It affects Huawei consumer products, as indicated by security bulletins for general consumer devices, laptops, and wearables. Published on 2026-01-14T03:15:49.277, the vulnerability has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.4 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H), with successful exploitation potentially affecting availability.
A local attacker with no privileges required can exploit this vulnerability due to its low attack complexity and lack of need for user interaction. Exploitation allows high-impact consequences, including unauthorized access to confidential data, modification of integrity, and disruption of availability across the affected scope.
Huawei has published security advisories detailing mitigations in bulletins available at https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2026/1/, https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletinlaptops/2026/1/, and https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletinwearables/2026/1/. Security practitioners should consult these for patch information and remediation steps specific to impacted devices.
OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-2575
Vulnerability details
Multi-thread race condition vulnerability in the card framework module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Local race condition (CWE-362) with no privileges required directly enables exploitation for privilege escalation to achieve high CIA impact.
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Timely flaw remediation through application of Huawei vendor patches directly eliminates the multi-thread race condition vulnerability in the card framework module.
Process and thread isolation prevents concurrent unauthorized access that enables exploitation of the race condition within the card framework.
Memory protection mechanisms such as ASLR and stack canaries mitigate exploitation of the race condition that could lead to confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts.