CVE-2019-5242 is a code execution vulnerability affecting Huawei PCManager versions prior to 9.0.1.50. An attacker can exploit this by tricking a user into installing and running a malicious application, leading to arbitrary code execution and memory manipulation. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), allowing for significant impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though it has received limited community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9.0.1.50CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:huawei:pcmanager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.