Google Android up to 9 Platform privileges management

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Google Android up to 9. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Platform. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2019-9463. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Google Android up to 9 (Smartphone Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Platform. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In Platform, there is a possible bypass of user interaction requirements due to background app interception. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation. Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10Android ID: A-113584607

The weakness was disclosed 08/20/2019 as Android 10 Security Release Notes as confirmed security bulletin (Website). The advisory is available at source.android.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-9463 since 02/28/2019. Local access is required to approach this attack. The successful exploitation needs a simple authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 10 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The entries VDB-142416, VDB-142417, VDB-142418 and VDB-142419 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

• Smartphone Operating System

Vendor

• Google

Name

• Android

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 2.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3
• 2.3
• 2.3.1
• 2.3.2
• 2.3.3
• 2.3.4
• 2.3.5
• 2.3.6
• 2.3.7
• 3.0
• 3.1
• 3.2
• 3.2.1
• 3.2.2
• 3.2.3
• 3.2.4
• 3.2.5
• 3.2.6
• 4.0
• 4.0.1
• 4.0.2
• 4.0.3
• 4.0.4
• 4.1
• 4.1.1
• 4.1.2
• 4.2
• 4.2.1
• 4.2.2
• 4.3
• 4.3.1
• 4.4
• 4.4.1
• 4.4.2
• 4.4.3
• 4.4.4
• 5.0
• 5.0.1
• 5.0.2
• 5.1
• 5.1.1
• 6.0
• 6.0.1
• 7.0
• 7.1
• 7.1.1
• 7.1.2
• 8.0
• 8.1
• 9.0

License

• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.google.com/

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