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CVE-2021-36994 json

There is a issue that trustlist strings being repeatedly inserted into the linked list in Huawei Smartphone due to race conditions.

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-23570

cvss
3.7
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

There is a issue that trustlist strings being repeatedly inserted into the linked list in Huawei Smartphone due to race conditions. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can cause exceptions when managing the system trustlist.

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Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Huawei EMUI
  • Huawei Magic UI

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization

References

Sources

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