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CVE-2019-5215

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

There is a man-in-the-middle (MITM) vulnerability on Huawei P30 smartphones versions before ELE-AL00 9.1.0.162(C01E160R1P12/C01E160R2P1), and P30 Pro versions before VOG-AL00 9.1.0.162 (C01E160R1P12/C01E160R2P1). When users establish connection and transfer data through Huawei Share, an attacker could sniff, spoof and do a series of operations to intrude the Huawei Share connection and launch a man-in-the-middle attack to obtain and tamper the data. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2019-03109)

Affected products

• HUAWEI P30: before ele-al00_9.1.0.162\(c01e160r1p12\/c01e160r2p1\) — fixed in ele-al00_9.1.0.162\(c01e160r1p12\/c01e160r2p1\)
• HUAWEI P30 Pro: before vog-al00_9.1.0.162\(c01e160r1p12\/c01e160r2p1\) — fixed in vog-al00_9.1.0.162\(c01e160r1p12\/c01e160r2p1\)

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HUAWEI P30 ele-al00_9.1.0.162\(c01e160r1p12\/c01e160r2p1\); HUAWEI P30 Pro vog-al00_9.1.0.162\(c01e160r1p12\/c01e160r2p1\). Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20190517-01-share-en
• https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20190517-01-share-en

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