CVE-2025-25278: OpenHarmony v5.0.3 Local RCE via tcb race condition
CVE-2025-25278 Published on August 11, 2025
liteos_a has a race condition vulnerability
in OpenHarmony v5.0.3 and prior versions allow a local attacker arbitrary code execution in tcb through race condition.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-25278 is exploitable 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 Race Condition Vulnerability?
The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
CVE-2025-25278 has been classified to as a Race Condition vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-25278
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Affected Versions
OpenHarmony:- Version v5.0.3, <= v5.0.3.x is affected.
Exploit Probability
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