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Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

CVE-2020-9261

Medium
6.8/10

Summary

HUAWEI Mate 30 with versions earlier than 10.1.0.150(C00E136R5P3) have a type confusion vulnerability. The system does not properly check and transform the type of certain variable, the attacker tricks the user into installing then running a crafted application, successful exploit could cause code execution.

  • MEDIUM
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL
  • PARTIAL

CWE-843 - Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

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