Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessRun malicious app on HarmonyOS device
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ExploitTrigger use-after-free in location service
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ImpactCrash or disrupt service availability
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Memory lifecycle management
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Execution, Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Requires local access to the device: an attacker-controlled or compromised process/app running on HarmonyOS that can reach the location service module to trigger the use-after-free (AV:L). No authentication and no user interaction are needed (PR:N/UI:N) and attack complexity is low (AC:L), so once code is executing locally the trigger is not gated by special configuration - but the input does not describe the exact call sequence or state that frees-then-reuses the object, so the precise trigger is not described in the available sources. The principal limiting factor is the local attack vector: remote, network-based exploitation is not supported by the vector, which substantially narrows realistic risk to scenarios where a hostile app is already installed. |
| Impact | This is a moderate-severity, low-urgency issue by the available signals, not a drop-everything priority. The CVSS 3.1 vector (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L, base 5.9) describes a locally-triggered use-after-free with low attack complexity and no privileges required, but with only Low impact to each of confidentiality, integrity and availability and no scope change. The vuln.today decision label is 'this_month', which is consistent with a non-emergency but patch-worthy finding. There is no KEV listing, no EPSS score, and no PoC or exploit reference in the input, so exploitation status is 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis' and exploitation is neither confirmed nor demonstrated. Two internal conflicts should be verified rather than treated as fact: (1) the free-text Impact says the flaw 'may affect availability' only, yet the CVSS vector assigns Low to confidentiality and integrity as well and the input Tags include 'Information Disclosure' and 'Memory Corruption' - the actual impact surface is therefore ambiguous between a denial-of-service crash and a limited info-leak; and (2) AV:L means the attacker needs local access (e.g. a malicious or compromised app on the device), which materially limits real-world reach despite PR:N. Net: a genuine memory-safety bug worth patching on the vendor's normal cadence, not evidence of a widespread or actively exploited threat. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A malicious or compromised application already present on a HarmonyOS device interacts with the location service module to trigger the use-after-free, with low complexity and without needing elevated privileges or user interaction (AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). The most consistent outcome with the stated impact is a crash or disruption of the service (availability), though the memory-corruption/info-disclosure tags leave a limited information leak as an unverified possibility. No public exploit code or PoC reference is present in the input. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Nov 02, 2026
Use-after-free in the Huawei HarmonyOS location service module can be triggered by an unauthenticated local attacker able to run code on the device, with no user interaction required. Successful exploitation may corrupt memory and affect availability, with low confidentiality, integrity and availability impact per the assessed CVSS vector. No public exploit code or confirmed active exploitation was identified at time of analysis, and the available signals place it at moderate severity with this-month remediation priority.
RemediationAI
No specific fixed build is stated in the supplied data; Huawei's October 2026 consumer security bulletins are the authoritative source for model-specific fixes and should be checked for the exact HarmonyOS version to install: https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2026/10/, https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletinvision/2026/10/, https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletinwearables/2026/10/, and https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletinlaptops/2026/10/. Once the bulletin identifies the fixed build for a device, apply that update; the supplied data does not provide a version number to cite. Because the assessed prerequisite is local code execution reaching the location service module, restricting installation of untrusted applications and limiting local code execution on affected devices is the directly relevant compensating control where an update is not yet applied, at the cost of reduced application flexibility; the supplied sources do not state a vendor-provided workaround.
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Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The flaw is a use-after-free (CWE-416) in Huawei's HarmonyOS location service module: memory for an object is released while a reference remains and is later dereferenced, which can lead to memory corruption or unexpected behavior. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:huawei:harmonyos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* maps the issue to Huawei HarmonyOS with an unspecified version range, and the vendor references are consumer security bulletins for October 2026 covering multiple device categories, so the affected scope is the HarmonyOS consumer product line rather than a single application. The supplied sources do not describe the exact call sequence, freed object, or service interface that triggers the reuse; the assessed vector confirms only that local code execution reaching the location service module is the prerequisite.
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Severity by source
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Local-only trigger (AV:L) by an unprivileged on-device process with no user interaction; a use-after-free plausibly yields the vendor's Low C/I/A impacts, so the vector is retained.
Primary rating from Vendor (huawei).
CVSS VectorVendor: huawei
DescriptionCVE.org
UAF vulnerability in the location service module. Impact: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may affect availability.
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Attack Technique
Use-after-free vulnerabilities occur when a program continues to access memory through a pointer after that memory has been deallocated.
Memory corruption occurs when a program writes data beyond the boundaries of allocated memory regions or accesses memory in unintended ways, violating the integrity of the process's address space.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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