CVE-2018-7993

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

HUAWEI Mate 10 smartphones with versions earlier than ALP-AL00 8.1.0.311 have a use after free vulnerability on mediaserver component. An attacker tricks the user install a malicious application, which make the software to reference memory after it has been freed. Successful exploit could cause execution of arbitrary code.

Affected products

Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 10: before alp-al00_8.1.0.311 — fixed in alp-al00_8.1.0.311

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 10 alp-al00_8.1.0.311. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180711-01-smartphone-en
http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180711-01-smartphone-en

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