CVE-2022-44420 Denial of service in SC9863A/SC9832E/SC7731E/T610/T310/T606/T760/T610/T618/T606/T612/T616/T760/T770/T820/S8000

What is CVE-2022-44420?

CVE-2022-44420 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 9 May 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In modem, there is a possible missing verification of HashMME value in Security Mode Command. This could local denial of service with no additional execution privileges.

Weakness: CWE-345

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-44420?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2022-44420?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-44420 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-2022-44420 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-44420 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hm46-wqvg-9pp2.