CVE-2023-21137 Denial of service in Android

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

A local attacker can cause a persistent denial of service in Android by triggering uncaught exceptions in JobStore.java without needing user interaction or elevated privileges.

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-2023-21137?

CVE-2023-21137 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 15 Jun 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In several methods of JobStore.java, uncaught exceptions in job map parsing could lead to local persistent denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-11 Android-12 Android-12L Android-13Android ID: A-246541702

Weakness: CWE-754

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-21137?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2023-21137?

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-2023-21137 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-21137 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as A-246541702, ASB-A-246541702, GHSA-5w58-7q99-f8cr, UBUNTU-CVE-2023-21137.

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