# CVE-2023-24465: Communication Wi-Fi subsystem has a null pointer reference vulnerability when receving external data.

> Local attackers can crash the application via a null pointer dereference in the Wi-Fi subsystem of OpenHarmony.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 10 Mar 2023
- **Updated:** 4 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5mjm-rg7p-q2rg

## What is CVE-2023-24465?

CVE-2023-24465 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openatom Openharmony, published on 10 Mar 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Communication Wi-Fi subsystem within OpenHarmony-v3.1.4 and prior versions, OpenHarmony-v3.0.7 and prior versions

has a null pointer reference vulnerability which local attackers can exploit this vulnerability to cause the current application to crash.

Weakness: CWE-476 (NULL Pointer Dereference), CWE-20 (Improper Input Validation)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-24465?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Openatom Openharmony.

## How do I fix CVE-2023-24465?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-24465 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2023-24465 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-24465 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2023-24465 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2023-24465 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openatom Openharmony, published on 10 Mar 2023. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-24465 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Openatom Openharmony. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-24465/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-24465/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-24465
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24465
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-24465

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-24465/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.