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CVE-2021-36999 json

There is a Buffer overflow vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability by sending malicious images and…

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-23575

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

There is a Buffer overflow vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability by sending malicious images and inducing users to open the images may cause remote code execution.

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Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Huawei EMUI
  • Huawei Magic UI

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

Sources

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