CVE-2020-9073Huawei P20 smartphones with versions earlier than 10.0.0.156(C00E156R1P4) have an improper authentication vulnerability. The vulnerability…
- 2.4LowCVSS base score
- 0.22%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 87% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Huawei P20 smartphones with versions earlier than 10.0.0.156(C00E156R1P4) have an improper authentication vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to that when an user wants to do certain operation, the software insufficiently validate the user's identity. Attackers need to physically access the smartphone to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploit could allow the attacker to bypass the limit of student mode function.
Timeline
ID reserved
By huawei
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Low2.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.22% · top 87% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.4.
Affected products
P20
- affected Versions earlier than 10.0.0.156(C00E156R1P4)
References
References1
- https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200513-01-smartphone-en (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-29902 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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