CVE-2023-25179 Denial of service in Intel(R) Unite(R) android application

What is CVE-2023-25179?

CVE-2023-25179 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Intel(R) Unite(R) android application, published on 10 May 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

Uncontrolled resource consumption in the Intel(R) Unite(R) android application before Release 17 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-25179?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Intel Unite.

How do I fix CVE-2023-25179?

No fix has been published for CVE-2023-25179 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-2023-25179 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-25179 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Intel(R) Unite(R) android application

• CVE-2019-0172 Privilege escalation in Intel Unite(R) Client for Android Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-0101 Auth bypass in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-5738 Information disclosure in Unite App Critical 9.1
• CVE-2021-0098 Privilege escalation in Intel Unite(R) Client for Windows High 7.8
• CVE-2021-0102 Privilege escalation in Intel Unite(R) Client for Windows High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-486p-h2pv-qhwh.