Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-7993 - Use After Free vulnerability in Huawei Mate 10 Firmware

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CVSS 9.3 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
huawei
CWE-416
critical

Summary

HUAWEI Mate 10 smartphones with versions earlier than ALP-AL00 8.1.0.311 have a use after free vulnerability on mediaserver component. An attacker tricks the user install a malicious application, which make the software to reference memory after it has been freed. Successful exploit could cause execution of arbitrary code.

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)