Vulnerability in Huawei Emui

CVE-2021-36987

There is a issue that nodes in the linked list being freed for multiple times in Huawei Smartphone due to race conditions. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can cause the system to restart.

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (38.6th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 39th percentile — 38.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2021-36987: held from 0.005 to 0.005.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-36987?
CVE-2021-36987 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Emui, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2021-10-28.
How severe is CVE-2021-36987?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.