CVE-2025-68960
Published: 14 January 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-68960 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 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).
Deeper analysis
CVE-2025-68960 is a multi-thread race condition vulnerability, classified under CWE-362, in the video framework module. It affects Huawei consumer products, as indicated by the vendor's security bulletins. The vulnerability was published on 2026-01-14T03:15:50.560 and carries 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), reflecting high impacts across confidentiality, integrity, and availability despite the primary noted effect on availability.
A local attacker can exploit this vulnerability with low complexity and no privileges or user interaction required. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to gain high-level unauthorized access to sensitive data, modify system integrity, and disrupt availability, potentially leading to full compromise of the affected video framework module.
Huawei has published security bulletins addressing this issue, available at https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2026/1/ and https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletinlaptops/2026/1/, which likely detail patches and mitigation steps for affected consumer devices.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-2574
Vulnerability details
Multi-thread race condition vulnerability in the video framework module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
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Related Threats
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Why these techniques?
Local unauthenticated race condition (CWE-362) in video framework directly enables privilege escalation to high-impact compromise (C/I/A).
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Mitigating Controls
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI
Timely installation of vendor patches directly remediates the multi-thread race condition vulnerability in the video framework module as detailed in Huawei's security bulletins.
Vulnerability monitoring and scanning identifies CVE-2025-68960 in affected Huawei consumer products, enabling prompt flaw remediation.
Receiving and disseminating security alerts and advisories from Huawei bulletins ensures awareness of the race condition vulnerability and available mitigations.