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Improper Authentication

CVE-2020-1788

Medium
5.5/10

Summary

Honor V30 smartphones with versions earlier than 10.0.1.135(C00E130R4P1) have an improper authentication vulnerability. Certain applications do not properly validate the identity of another application who would call its interface. An attacker could trick the user into installing a malicious application. Successful exploit could allow unauthorized actions leading to information disclosure.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • REQUIRED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-287 - Improper Authentication

Improper (or broken) authentication attacks are widespread, and have accounted for many of the worst data breaches in recent years. Improper authentication attacks are a class of vulnerabilities where an attacker impersonates a legitimate user by exploiting weaknesses in either session management or credential management to gain access to the user’s account. This can result in disclosure of sensitive information, and can lead to system compromise, theft, identity theft, and fraud.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published