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CVE-2021-39973

• 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
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

There is a Null pointer dereference in Smartphones.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause the kernel to break down.

Affected products

• Huawei EMUI: 11.0.0
• Huawei HarmonyOS: before 2.0 — fixed in 2.0
• Huawei Magic UI: 4.0.0

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/2021/11/
• https://device.harmonyos.com/en/docs/security/update/security-bulletins-202111-0000001217889667
• https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2021/11/
• https://device.harmonyos.com/en/docs/security/update/security-bulletins-202111-0000001217889667

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