Persistent denial of service via SharedPreferences injection
Published Jun 9, 2023 · Updated Jan 6, 2025
Denial of service in Twilight 13.3 for Android allows unauthorized apps to persistently crash the app through an exposed content provider. The com.urbandroid.sleep.multiprocesspreferences.PREFFERENCE_AUTHORITY provider accepts repeated large key-value inserts into SharedPreferences until startup loading exhausts memory. Another app must run on the same device and trigger the inserts; the persisted oversized data then causes crashes after later Twilight startups.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in Twilight 13.3 for Android allows unauthorized apps to persistently crash the app through an exposed content provider. The com.urbandroid.sleep.multiprocesspreferences.PREFFERENCE_AUTHORITY provider accepts repeated large key-value inserts into SharedPreferences until startup loading exhausts memory. Another app must run on the same device and trigger the inserts; the persisted oversized data then causes crashes after later Twilight startups.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-29756
- Published
- Jun 9, 2023
- Updated
- Jan 6, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-346, T1642
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
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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Public exploit references
- SharedPreferences content-provider insertion proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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