What is CVE-2018-7930?

CVE-2018-7930 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Mate 9, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2018-04-11.

How severe is CVE-2018-7930?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.7 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Huawei Mate 9

CVE-2018-7930

The Near Field Communication (NFC) module in Mate 9 Huawei mobile phones with the versions before MHA-L29B 8.0.0.366(C567) has an information leak vulnerability due to insufficient validation on data transfer requests. When an affected mobile phone sends files to an attacker's mobile phone using the NFC function, the attacker can obtain arbitrary files from the mobile phone, causing information leaks.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

EPSS: 0.004 (30.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Huawei Mate_9
Huawei Mate_9_firmware
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Mate 9 — versions The versions before MHA-L29B 8.0.0.366(C567)

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

psirt@huawei.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-7930?: CVE-2018-7930 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Mate 9, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2018-04-11.
How severe is CVE-2018-7930?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.7 out of 10.