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Local-only access required with no prior privileges; limited confidentiality leak and availability disruption without integrity impact, consistent with Bluetooth permission bypass description.
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CVSS VectorVendor: huawei
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1DescriptionCVE.org
Permission control vulnerability in the Bluetooth module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
AnalysisAI
Permission control failure in the Bluetooth module of Huawei HarmonyOS and EMUI exposes devices to local exploitation that can degrade Bluetooth service availability and leak limited data. The flaw, classified under CWE-264, allows a local process operating without elevated privileges to bypass Bluetooth permission enforcement, potentially disrupting connectivity or reading restricted information. No public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis, but Huawei has disclosed this via its July 2026 security bulletin.
Technical ContextAI
The vulnerability resides in the Bluetooth stack component of Huawei's HarmonyOS and EMUI operating systems, as identified by CPE entries cpe:2.3:a:huawei:harmony_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* and cpe:2.3:a:huawei:emui:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*. CWE-264 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls) indicates that the Bluetooth module fails to properly enforce access control checks, allowing a caller without the requisite Bluetooth permissions to interact with restricted functionality. This class of flaw typically arises from missing or incorrectly ordered permission gate calls in IPC/binder interfaces, system service APIs, or broadcast receivers within the Bluetooth subsystem. The local attack vector confirms exploitation requires code execution on the device rather than a remote network path.
RemediationAI
Apply the security update referenced in Huawei's July 2026 security bulletin at https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2026/7/; the exact patched HarmonyOS and EMUI version numbers are not specified in the available data and must be confirmed against the bulletin directly. On devices where OTA updates cannot be immediately applied, a compensating control is to disable Bluetooth entirely via device settings when not in active use, which removes the attack surface at the cost of Bluetooth connectivity. Restricting installation of untrusted or sideloaded applications reduces the local attacker footprint, since exploitation requires malicious code already running on the device. Enterprise MDM policies enforcing mandatory OS update compliance are the most reliable mitigation at scale.
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EUVD-2026-44663
GHSA-vc9f-285p-f5rf