CVE-2022-20414 Denial of service in Android

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A local attacker can cause a denial of service by triggering a boot loop via an uncaught exception in the AlarmManagerService.

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-2022-20414?

CVE-2022-20414 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 8 Nov 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In setImpl of AlarmManagerService.java, there is a possible way to put a device into a boot loop due to an uncaught exception. 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-12L Android-13Android ID: A-234441463

Weakness: CWE-755

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20414?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2022-20414?

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-2022-20414 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20414 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as A-234441463, ASB-A-234441463, GHSA-xm24-7c3w-pfc7.

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