CVE-2020-9142 is a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Huawei EMUI and Magic UI smartphones. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw remotely with low complexity by sending a crafted update file, leading to memory overwriting and potential denial of service or arbitrary code execution. Despite its critical CVSS score of 9.1, there is currently no public exploit code available, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog. The vulnerability has also received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:9.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:9.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:10.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:10.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
10.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:huawei:emui:10.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.