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🛡️ CVE-2022-48518 — emui

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-701 NVD
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CVSS Score
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Description

Vulnerability of signature verification in the iaware system being initialized later than the time when the system broadcasts are sent. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause malicious apps to start upon power-on by spoofing the package names of apps in the startup trustlist, which affects system performance.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: None.

Affected software

CVE-2022-48518 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • emui
  • harmonyos

Timeline and source

Published on 6 July 2023 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

consumer.huawei.com
device.harmonyos.com
consumer.huawei.com
device.harmonyos.com

Other advisories for this package

emui has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-701) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-701
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-07-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
emui
harmonyos

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