CVE-2025-26463 Denial of service in Android

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Local attackers can cause persistent denial of service by exhausting resources through repeated package access additions in Android.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Any signed-in user
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2025-26463?

CVE-2025-26463 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 4 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In allowPackageAccess of multiple files, resource exhaustion is possible when repeatedly adding allowed packages. This could lead to a local persistent denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-26463?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2025-26463?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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-2025-26463 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-26463 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as A-303227969, ASB-A-303227969, GHSA-342p-69x7-757j.

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