Cyber Posture

CVE-2024-56436

Medium

Published: 08 January 2025

Published
08 January 2025
Modified
27 September 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0007 22.1th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Cross-process screen stack vulnerability in the UIExtension module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.

Security Summary

CVE-2024-56436 is a cross-process screen stack vulnerability in the UIExtension module. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.5 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N) and is linked to CWE-1021 (as well as NVD-CWE-noinfo). Successful exploitation may affect service confidentiality.

A local attacker with no privileges required can exploit this vulnerability through low-complexity attacks that necessitate user interaction. Upon success, the attacker achieves high confidentiality impact, enabling unauthorized access to sensitive data across processes without affecting integrity or availability.

Huawei has published a security bulletin with further details at https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2025/1/.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-1021NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

huawei
harmonyos
5.0.0

References