CVE-2025-24836 Qardio Heart Health IOS and Android Application and QardioARM A100 Uncaught Exception
An attacker can cause a denial of service on Qardio heart monitors by flooding them with Bluetooth commands, preventing clinical readings.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-24836?
CVE-2025-24836 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Qardio Heart Health Android Mobile Application, published on 13 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
With a specially crafted Python script, an attacker could send continuous startMeasurement commands over an unencrypted Bluetooth connection to the affected device. This would prevent the device from connecting to a clinician's app to take patient readings and ostensibly flood it with requests, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.
Weakness: CWE-248
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-24836?
How do I fix CVE-2025-24836?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-24836 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-2025-24836 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-24836 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pvvp-cjfg-4jv4.