CVE-2024-56447
Published: 08 January 2025
Description
Vulnerability of improper permission control in the window management module Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.
Security Summary
CVE-2024-56447 is a vulnerability involving improper permission control in the window management module, associated with CWE-269 (Improper Privilege Management) and CWE-276 (Incorrect Default Permissions). It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and was published on 2025-01-08. The issue primarily impacts service confidentiality upon successful exploitation, though the CVSS vector indicates high potential effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
A local attacker with low privileges can exploit this vulnerability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Exploitation allows unauthorized access or manipulation within the affected window management module, enabling high-impact disruption to confidentiality, integrity, and availability of services on the targeted system.
Huawei has published a consumer support bulletin at https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2025/1/ addressing this vulnerability, which likely includes details on patches or mitigation steps for affected devices.
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