CVE-2020-14120 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting certain Xiaomi models running MIUI, stemming from a lack of checksum validation when a specific application processes parameters from third-party applications. This allows an attacker to trick users into installing a malicious app, leading to privilege escalation and potential disruption of system services. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with a network-based attack requiring user interaction. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mi:miui:12.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.