Race condition in AndroidTV TvSettings_CVE-2025-8192

6.9 / 10

MEDIUM

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N

Description

There exists a TOCTOU race condition in TvSettings AppRestrictionsFragment.java that lead to start of attacker supplied activity in Settings’ context, i.e. system-uid context, thus lead to launchAnyWhere. The core idea is to utilize the time window between the check of Intent and the use to Intent to change the target component’s state, thus bypass the original security sanitize function.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-8192

Source Google

Published Jul 31, 2025 at 08:24

Modified Jul 31, 2025 at 13:20

Affected Product

Vendor Android

Product TV

Affected Versions Android TV 0

CWE Classification

CWE-367

References

defcon.org /html/defcon-33/dc-33-speakers.html

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