CVE-2019-5216

Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-06-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-362

Description

There is a race condition vulnerability on Huawei Honor V10 smartphones versions earlier than Berkeley-AL20 9.0.0.156(C00E156R2P14T8), Honor 10 smartphones versions earlier than Columbia-AL10B 9.0.0.156(C00E156R1P20T8) and Honor Play smartphones versions earlier than Cornell-AL00A 9.0.0.156(C00E156R1P13T8). An attacker tricks the user into installing a malicious application, which makes multiple processes to operate the same variate at the same time. Successful exploit could cause execution of malicious code.

Affected products

Huawei Honor 10: before columbia-al10b_9.0.0.156\(c00e156r1p20t8\) — fixed in columbia-al10b_9.0.0.156\(c00e156r1p20t8\)
Honor play: before cornell-al00a_9.0.0.156\(c00e156r1p13t8\) — fixed in cornell-al00a_9.0.0.156\(c00e156r1p13t8\)
Huawei Honor View 10 Firmware: before berkeley-al20_9.0.0.156\(c00e156r2p14t8\) — fixed in berkeley-al20_9.0.0.156\(c00e156r2p14t8\)

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Honor 10 columbia-al10b_9.0.0.156\(c00e156r1p20t8\); Honor play cornell-al00a_9.0.0.156\(c00e156r1p13t8\); Huawei Honor View 10 Firmware berkeley-al20_9.0.0.156\(c00e156r2p14t8\). Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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