CVE-2021-22450 Denial of service in HarmonyOS

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Local attackers can exploit an incomplete cleanup vulnerability in HarmonyOS to cause memory exhaustion and denial of service.

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-2021-22450?

CVE-2021-22450 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Huawei Harmonyos, published on 28 Oct 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A component of the HarmonyOS has a Incomplete Cleanup vulnerability. Local attackers may exploit this vulnerability to cause memory exhaustion.

Weakness: CWE-459

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-22450?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Huawei Harmonyos.

How do I fix CVE-2021-22450?

No fix has been published for CVE-2021-22450 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-2021-22450 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-22450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Huawei Harmonyos vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-xv7v-rr53-498m.

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