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CVE-2021-37113

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• 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: 2022-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

There is a Privilege escalation vulnerability with the file system component in Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect service confidentiality.

Affected products

• Huawei EMUI: 9.1.0, 9.1.1, 10.0.0, 10.1.0
• Huawei HarmonyOS: before 2.0; 2.0 — fixed in 2.0
• Huawei Magic UI: 2.1.1, 3.0.0, 3.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Huawei HarmonyOS 2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2021/10/
• https://device.harmonyos.com/en/docs/security/update/security-bulletins-202110-0000001162998526
• https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2021/10/
• https://device.harmonyos.com/en/docs/security/update/security-bulletins-202110-0000001162998526

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