Persistent app crash via unbounded preference insertion
Published Jun 9, 2023 · Updated Jan 6, 2025
Denial of service in EKATOX APPS Facemoji Emoji Keyboard 2.9.1.2 for Android allows local users to persistently crash the app. An exposed content provider accepts inserts from unauthorized apps into arbitrary SharedPreference files, allowing persistent data to grow without bounds and load at startup. A local malicious app can repeatedly write large keys and values until startup exhausts memory, leaving the keyboard in a persistent crash loop.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in EKATOX APPS Facemoji Emoji Keyboard 2.9.1.2 for Android allows local users to persistently crash the app. An exposed content provider accepts inserts from unauthorized apps into arbitrary SharedPreference files, allowing persistent data to grow without bounds and load at startup. A local malicious app can repeatedly write large keys and values until startup exhausts memory, leaving the keyboard in a persistent crash loop.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-29753
- Published
- Jun 9, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 6, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-346, T1499.003
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 9, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jan 6, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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Attacks
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Public exploit references
- SharedPreference content-provider insertion proof of conceptproof of concept · unverified
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