CVE-2020-13843 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Local users can cause a denial of service on LG Android devices due to mishandled userdata partition checks.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2020-13843?

CVE-2020-13843 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 4 Jun 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue was discovered on LG mobile devices with Android OS software before 2020-06-01. Local users can cause a denial of service because checking of the userdata partition is mishandled. The LG ID is LVE-SMP-200014 (June 2020).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-13843?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2020-13843?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-13843 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-2020-13843 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-13843 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vpp3-wrj8-pq2h.

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