CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2022-20425 — In addAutomaticZenRule of ZenModeHelper.java, there is a possible permanent degradation of performance due to resource exhaustion

Medium CVSS 5.5

In addAutomaticZenRule of ZenModeHelper.java, there is a possible permanent degradation of performance due to resource exhaustion. This could lead to local denial of service with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10 Android-11 Android-12 Android-12L Android-13Android ID: A-235823407

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2022-10-11
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
operating-system
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Affected products

  • google / android / 10.0
  • google / android / 11.0
  • google / android / 12.0
  • google / android / 12.1
  • google / android / 13.0

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

Complete CVE record and remediation plan

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