CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
29.8%
avast! Mobile Security Android application version 2.0.3587, and possibly earlier versions, contains a denial-of-service vulnerability.
avast! Mobile Security (version 2.0.3587) crashes if an Intent is sent to com.avast.android.mobilesecurity.app.scanner.DeleteFileActivity with no arguments. Upon receiving the malformed intent the application will crash with the following message.
βUnfortunately, avast! Mobile Security has stopped.β
The logcat log contains a message confirming that the application has crashed.
βI/ActivityManager( 175): Process com.avast.android.mobilesecurity (pid 6596) has died.β
This results in a malicious application being able to disable the avast! Mobile Security software.
A malicious application installed on the phone may be able to disable the avast! Mobile Security software.
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Notified: March 22, 2013 Updated: April 16, 2013
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Group | Score | Vector |
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Base | 3.8 | AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
Temporal | 3 | E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C |
Environmental | 2.3 | CDP:ND/TD:M/CR:ND/IR:ND/AR:ND |
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.avast.android.mobilesecurity>
Thanks to Kurt Traver for reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Jared Allar.
CVE IDs: | CVE-2013-0122 |
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Date Public: | 2013-04-19 Date First Published: |