CVE-2020-9255

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
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: 2020-07-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Huawei Honor 10 smartphones with versions earlier than 10.0.0.178(C00E178R1P4) have a denial of service vulnerability. Certain service in the system does not sufficiently validate certain parameter which is received, the attacker should trick the user into installing a malicious application, successful exploit could cause a denial of service condition.

Affected products

Huawei Honor 10: before 10.0.0.178\(c00e178r1p4\) — fixed in 10.0.0.178\(c00e178r1p4\)

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei Honor 10 10.0.0.178\(c00e178r1p4\). Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200715-06-smartphone-en
https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200715-06-smartphone-en

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