CVE-2020-0021 Denial of service in Android

What is CVE-2020-0021?

CVE-2020-0021 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 13 Feb 2020. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In removeUnusedPackagesLPw of PackageManagerService.java, there is a possible permanent denial-of-service due to a missing package dependency test. This could lead to remote denial of service with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10Android ID: A-141413692

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-0021?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2020-0021?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-0021 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-2020-0021 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-0021 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

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• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-25vg-8r7j-58cf.