Vulnerability of signature verification in the iaware system being initialized later than the time when the system broadcasts are sent.

published 2023-07-06 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-51214

cvss: 5.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits: 0; none known

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.

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 23 mo ago (2024-11-19)

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

Huawei HarmonyOS
Huawei EMUI

Classification

Weakness

CWE-701 Weaknesses Introduced During Design
CWE-665 Improper Initialization

References

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

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-48518
NVD CVE-2022-48518

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Summary