CVE-2015-3860 Denial of service in n/a
A physically proximate attacker can crash the SystemUI by entering a long password, potentially bypassing lockscreen access restrictions.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2015-3860?
CVE-2015-3860 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 1 Oct 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
packages/Keyguard/res/layout/keyguard_password_view.xml in Lockscreen in Android 5.x before 5.1.1 LMY48M does not restrict the number of characters in the passwordEntry input field, which allows physically proximate attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a long password that triggers a SystemUI crash, aka internal bug 22214934.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-3860?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2015-3860?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-3860 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2015-3860 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-3860 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2pcg-v64r-g52w.