CVE-2023-29723 Denial of service in n/a
An attacker can inject data to force malicious image loading and cause an out-of-memory crash, resulting in persistent denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-29723?
CVE-2023-29723 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Jun 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The Glitter Unicorn Wallpaper app for Android 7.0 thru 8.0 allows unauthorized applications to actively request permission to insert data into the database that records information about a user's personal preferences and will be loaded into memory to be read and used when the application is opened. By injecting data, the attacker can force the application to load malicious image URLs and display them in the UI. As the amount of data increases, it will eventually cause the application to trigger an OOM error and crash, resulting in a persistent denial of service attack.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-29723?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Glitter Unicorn Wallpaper Project Glitter Unicorn Wallpaper.
How do I fix CVE-2023-29723?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-29723 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-2023-29723 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2023-29723 exists.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jqhg-wchm-mvwr.