A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Google Android 11.0 (Smartphone Operating System). This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Settings Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permissions vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-281. The product does not preserve permissions or incorrectly preserves permissions when copying, restoring, or sharing objects, which can cause them to have less restrictive permissions than intended. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

In Settings, there is a possible permissions bypass. This could lead to local information disclosure of the device's IMEI with User execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-11Android ID: A-147309310

The weakness was disclosed 09/18/2020 (Website). The advisory is shared at source.android.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-0331 since 10/17/2019. An attack has to be approached locally. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/19/2020). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1222 for this issue.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The entries 161398, 161399, 161402 and 161403 are pretty similar.

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• Smartphone Operating System

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• Google

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• Android

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• 11.0

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• free

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