CVE-2019-5221

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-07-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

There is a path traversal vulnerability on Huawei Share. The software does not properly validate the path, an attacker could crafted a file path when transporting file through Huawei Share, successful exploit could allow the attacker to transport a file to arbitrary path on the phone. Affected products: Mate 20 X versions earlier than Ever-L29B 9.1.0.300(C432E3R1P12), versions earlier than Ever-L29B 9.1.0.300(C636E3R2P1), and versions earlier than Ever-L29B 9.1.0.300(C185E3R3P1).

Affected products

Huawei Mate 20 X: before ever-l29b_9.1.0.300\(c636e3r2p1\); before ever-l29b_9.1.0.300\(c432e3r1p12\); before ever-l29b_9.1.0.300\(c185e3r3p1\) — fixed in ever-l29b_9.1.0.300\(c185e3r3p1\), ever-l29b_9.1.0.300\(c432e3r1p12\), ever-l29b_9.1.0.300\(c636e3r2p1\)

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Mate 20 X ever-l29b_9.1.0.300\(c185e3r3p1\), ever-l29b_9.1.0.300\(c432e3r1p12\), ever-l29b_9.1.0.300\(c636e3r2p1\). Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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