CVE-2019-5260

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
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: 2019-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Huawei smartphones HUAWEI Y9 2019 and Honor View 20 have a denial of service vulnerability. Due to insufficient input validation of specific value when parsing the messages, an attacker may send specially crafted TD-SCDMA messages from a rogue base station to the affected devices to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit may cause an infinite loop and the device to reboot.

Affected products

Huawei View 20 Firmware: 9.0.1.169(c636e1r4p1), 9.0.1.170(c185e2r3p1), 9.0.1.170(c432e1r3p1)
HUAWEI Y9 2019: 8.2.0.160(c185r2p2), 8.2.0.162(c605), 8.2.0.163(c605)

References

https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20190911-01-mobile-en
https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20190911-01-mobile-en

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