What is CVE-2025-53168?

CVE-2025-53168 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos, classified under Permission Issues. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2025-07-07.

How severe is CVE-2025-53168?

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

Vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos

CVE-2025-53168

Vulnerability of bypassing the process to start SA and use related functions on distributed cameras Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow the peer device to use the camera without user awareness.

Published 2025-07-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (4.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 4th percentile — 4.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Huawei Harmonyos — versions 5.1.0, 5.0.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-275 — Permission Issues

References

consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2025/7/ (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-53168?: CVE-2025-53168 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos, classified under Permission Issues. CVSS score: 5.7/10. Published 2025-07-07.
How severe is CVE-2025-53168?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.7 out of 10.