CVE-2023-20693 Denial of service in MT6739, MT6895, MT6983, MT8167, MT8168, MT8195, MT8321, MT8365, MT8385, MT8666, MT8765, MT8781, MT8788

What is CVE-2023-20693?

CVE-2023-20693 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 4 Jul 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In wlan firmware, there is possible system crash due to an uncaught exception. This could lead to remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS07664711; Issue ID: ALPS07664711.

Weakness: CWE-190

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-20693?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Google Android, Linuxfoundation Yocto.

How do I fix CVE-2023-20693?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-20693 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-2023-20693 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-20693 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-62j5-q6gg-qvr9.