CVE-2022-36423 Denial of service in OpenHarmony
LAN attackers can cause a denial of service on OpenHarmony devices via stack overflow in the cJSON library during recursive parsing.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-36423?
CVE-2022-36423 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Openatom Openharmony, published on 9 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
OpenHarmony-v3.1.2 and prior versions have an incorrect configuration of the cJSON library, which leads a Stack overflow vulnerability during recursive parsing. LAN attackers can lead a DoS attack to all network devices.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-36423?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Openatom Openharmony, Openharmony Openharmony.
How do I fix CVE-2022-36423?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-36423 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-2022-36423 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-36423 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2024-47398 Liteos_a has an out-of-bounds write vulnerability
- CVE-2024-10074 Liteos_a has an use after free vulnerability
- CVE-2024-41157 Liteos-A has an use after free vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2cf7-6ggv-hfxq.