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CVE-2021-39982

Status: ModifiedCritical (9.1)—

Phone Manager application has a Improper Privilege Management vulnerability.Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may read and write arbitrary files by tampering with Phone Manager notifications.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Huawei — Harmonyos

CWEs

References

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