Cyber Posture

CVE-2024-56438

Medium

Published: 08 January 2025

Published
08 January 2025
Modified
26 September 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score 6.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0008 22.6th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Description

Vulnerability of improper memory address protection in the HUKS module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.

Security Summary

CVE-2024-56438 is a vulnerability involving improper memory address protection in the HUKS module. It is classified under CWE-119 and has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.0 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H). The vulnerability was published on 2025-01-08.

Exploitation requires local access (AV:L) with high privileges (PR:H), low attack complexity (AC:L), and no user interaction (UI:N). A successful attack can achieve high impact on availability (A:H) with a changed scope (S:C), potentially disrupting system services.

Mitigation details are provided in the Huawei security bulletin at https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2025/1/.

Details

CWE(s)
CWE-119NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

huawei
emui
14.0.0
huawei
harmonyos
3.1.0, 4.0.0, 4.2.0

References