CVE-2021-43849 DoS vulnerability

2021-12-2316:20:10

CWE-617

GitHub_M

www.cve.org

6.2 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

12.7%

JSON

cordova-plugin-fingerprint-aio is a plugin provides a single and simple interface for accessing fingerprint APIs on both Android 6+ and iOS. In versions prior to 5.0.1 The exported activity de.niklasmerz.cordova.biometric.BiometricActivity can cause the app to crash. This vulnerability occurred because the activity didn’t handle the case where it is requested with invalid or empty data which results in a crash. Any third party app can constantly call this activity with no permission. A 3rd party app/attacker using event listener can continually stop the app from working and make the victim unable to open it. Version 5.0.1 of the cordova-plugin-fingerprint-aio doesn’t export the activity anymore and is no longer vulnerable. If you want to fix older versions change the attribute android:exported in plugin.xml to false. Please upgrade to version 5.0.1 as soon as possible.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "cordova-plugin-fingerprint-aio",
    "vendor": "NiklasMerz",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "< 5.0.1"
      }
    ]
  }
]