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CVE-2018-7930

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-04-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The Near Field Communication (NFC) module in Mate 9 Huawei mobile phones with the versions before MHA-L29B 8.0.0.366(C567) has an information leak vulnerability due to insufficient validation on data transfer requests. When an affected mobile phone sends files to an attacker's mobile phone using the NFC function, the attacker can obtain arbitrary files from the mobile phone, causing information leaks.

Affected products

• Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 9: before mha-l29b_8.0.0.366\(c567\) — fixed in mha-l29b_8.0.0.366\(c567\)

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 9 mha-l29b_8.0.0.366\(c567\). Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180411-01-smartphone-en
• http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180411-01-smartphone-en

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