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CVE-2020-9119There is a privilege escalation vulnerability on some Huawei smart phones due to design defects. The attacker needs to physically contact…
- 6.2MediumCVSS base score
- 0.23%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 86% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
There is a privilege escalation vulnerability on some Huawei smart phones due to design defects. The attacker needs to physically contact the mobile phone and obtain higher privileges, and execute relevant commands, resulting in the user's privilege promotion.
Timeline
ID reserved
By huawei
- 10 months later
· 10 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 | Medium6.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.23% · top 86% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Affected products
HUAWEI Mate 10;HUAWEI Mate 30;HUAWEI Mate 30 Pro;HUAWEI P40;HUAWEI P40 Pro
- affected Versions earlier than 10.0.0.189(C185E6R1P3)
- affected Versions earlier than 10.1.0.156(C00E155R7P2)
- affected Versions earlier than 10.1.0.156(C00E156R7P2)
- affected Versions earlier than 10.1.0.150(SP1C00E150R4P1)
References
References1
- https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20201202-01-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-2020-29948 (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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