CVE-2024-43696 Liteos_a has an Memory Leak vulnerability
A local attacker can cause a denial of service in OpenHarmony by exploiting a memory leak vulnerability.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2024-43696?
CVE-2024-43696 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Openatom Openharmony, published on 8 Oct 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
in OpenHarmony v4.1.0 and prior versions allow a local attacker cause DOS by memory leak.
Weakness: CWE-401
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-43696?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Openatom Openharmony.
How do I fix CVE-2024-43696?
No fix has been published for CVE-2024-43696 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-2024-43696 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-43696 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Openatom Openharmony
- CVE-2025-0303 Liteos_a has a buffer overflow vulnerability
- CVE-2025-0304 Liteos_a has an use after free vulnerability
- CVE-2024-47398 Liteos_a has an out-of-bounds write vulnerability
- CVE-2024-10074 Liteos_a has an use after free vulnerability
- CVE-2024-41157 Liteos-A has an use after free vulnerability
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gqrp-9mp9-2rf6.