Vulnerability CVE-2021-38788
Published: 2022-01-19

Description:
The Background service in Allwinner R818 SoC Android Q SDK V1.0 is used to manage background applications. Malicious apps can use the interface provided by the service to set the number of applications allowed to run in the background to 0 and add themselves to the whitelist, so that once other applications enter the background, they will be forcibly stopped by the system, causing a denial of service.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial

 References:
https://www.allwinnertech.com/index.php?c=product&a=index&id=92
https://vul.wangan.com/a/CNVD-2021-46928
https://www.cnvd.org.cn/flaw/show/CNVD-2021-46928
https://github.com/pokerfacett/MY_CVE_CREDIT/blob/master/Allwinner%20R818%20SoC%EF%BC%9Abackground%20service%20has%20EoP%20Vulnerability.md
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