Telephony in communication subsystem sends public events with personal data, but the permission is not set.

published 2022-12-08 3y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2022-48036

cvss: 6.2; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 7%
public exploits: 0; none known

OpenHarmony-v3.1.2 and prior versions had a vulnerability that telephony in communication subsystem sends public events with personal data, but the permission is not set. Malicious apps could listen to public events and obtain information such as mobile numbers and SMS data without permissions.

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2y ago (2024-07-16)

Exploit prediction

0.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

OpenHarmony OpenHarmony

Classification

Weakness

CWE-287 Improper Authentication
CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

gitee.com /openharmony/security/blob/master/en/security-disclosure/2022/2022-12.md
third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-45118
NVD CVE-2022-45118

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