CVE-2022-20129 Denial of service in Android

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A local attacker can cause a denial of service by preventing phone account selection due to improper input validation in Android.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2022-20129?

CVE-2022-20129 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 15 Jun 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In registerPhoneAccount of PhoneAccountRegistrar.java, there is a possible way to prevent the user from selecting a phone account due to improper input validation. This could lead to local denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10 Android-11 Android-12 Android-12LAndroid ID: A-217934478

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20129?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2022-20129?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2022-20129 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20129 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as A-217934478, ASB-A-217934478, GHSA-rvc8-68wq-jcj6.

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