OpenHarmony v4.1.0 OOB Write Root Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-47797 Published on November 5, 2024
Liteos_a has an out-of-bounds Write vulnerability
in OpenHarmony v4.1.0 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause the common permission is upgraded to root and sensitive information leak through out-of-bounds write.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-47797 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?
The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
CVE-2024-47797 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-47797
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Affected Versions
OpenHarmony:- Version v4.0.0, <= 4.1.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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