CVE-2025-68958
Published: 14 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68958 is a high-severity Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos. Its CVSS base score is 8.0 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 0.1th 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 RA-5 (Vulnerability Monitoring and Scanning) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Directly remediates the multi-thread race condition vulnerability in the card framework module by applying Huawei patches, preventing exploitation and impacts to confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Scans for and remediates the specific CVE-2025-68958 race condition vulnerability, enabling proactive identification and correction before local exploitation.
Limits the high availability impact and potential denial-of-service effects from successful local exploitation of the race condition.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Local unauthenticated race condition (CWE-362) with high integrity/availability impact enables exploitation of software flaws to escalate privileges on the host.
NVD Description
Multi-thread race condition vulnerability in the card framework module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-68958 is a multi-thread race condition vulnerability, classified under CWE-362, in the card framework module. Published on 2026-01-14, it affects Huawei consumer products and carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.0 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H). Successful exploitation may affect availability.
A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and no user interaction. Exploitation can lead to low confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and high availability impact.
Huawei has issued security bulletins for this vulnerability, available on their consumer support pages for general products, laptops, and wearables dated January 2026.
Details
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