Path Traversal Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphones: Exploiting Application Pathnames for Information Disclosure

Path Traversal Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphones: Exploiting Application Pathnames for Information Disclosure

CVE-2019-5251 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

There is a path traversal vulnerability in several Huawei smartphones. The system does not sufficiently validate certain pathnames from the application. An attacker could trick the user into installing, backing up and restoring a malicious application. Successful exploit could cause information disclosure.

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