CVE-2025-36917 Denial of service in Android

What is CVE-2025-36917?

CVE-2025-36917 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Google Android, published on 11 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In SwDcpItg of up_L2commonPdcpSecurity.cpp, there is a possible denial of service due to an incorrect bounds check. This could lead to remote denial of service with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

Weakness: CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-36917?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2025-36917?

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-2025-36917 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-36917 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as A-409043770, GHSA-m84x-jhq2-p8xx, PUB-A-409043770.