This vulnerability affects users running Android with the Collaborative Software Development (CSD) enabled. When CSD is enabled, the operating system creates a “sandbox” around each application, limiting what the application can do on the system. This limits the impact of this vulnerability. Most users won’t be affected by this issue. However, users who work with sensitive data where the inability to verify data integrity could lead to issues like financial fraud or identity theft should consider disabling CSD. If you are concerned about remote exploitation, you can disable CSD for your user account. You can read more about disabling CSD. This issue can be exploited by remote attackers. This issue does not affect most devices. The only chips that are impacted by this issue are those that have an ARMv8 CPU. This issue was fixed in Android 9.

CVE References Severity Impact CVE-2018-5353 Google 6 Low User exposure - unlikely to be exploitable by an attacker. User interaction is required.

The possible way to exploit this issue is by running a specially crafted application on the device. If an application with a malicious payload running on the device is encountered by a user, it is possible that an attacker could trick the user into installing a malicious application. By doing so, the attacker could trick the user into installing a malicious application with the privileges of the user account

Android version 9

A vulnerability affecting Android 9 and lower was identified by Google. This vulnerability affects users running Android with the Collaborative Software Development (CSD) enabled. When CSD is enabled, the operating system creates a “sandbox” around each application, limiting what the application can do on the system. This limits the impact of this vulnerability. Most users won't be affected by this issue. However, users who work with sensitive data where the inability to verify data integrity could lead to issues like financial fraud or identity theft should consider disabling CSD. If you are concerned about remote exploitation, you can disable CSD for your user account. You can read more about disabling CSD here and here .
This issue can be exploited by remote attackers who have control over what's being rendered on the device's screen at any given time. The exploit would not require interaction from the user in order to take advantage of it and an attacker could gain root privileges on affected devices just by rendering something maliciously on their screens while they're showing live video content or playing a game that requires root privileges in order to access certain hardware resources such as graphics acceleration or other hardware components which may allow further exploitation of the device.

Android Versions and Products Affected

The vulnerability affects Android versions 6 and higher.

This vulnerability impacts devices that have the ARMv8 CPU chip set. In other words, this vulnerability only affects devices running an ARMv8 chip set.  This issue was fixed in Android 9. The issue is also fixed in earlier versions of Android if the user has installed the latest update for the device.

Methodology

This vulnerability affects users running Android with the Collaborative Software Development (CSD) enabled. When CSD is enabled, the operating system creates a “sandbox” around each application, limiting what the application can do on the system. This limits the impact of this vulnerability. Most users won’t be affected by this issue. However, users who work with sensitive data where the inability to verify data integrity could lead to issues like financial fraud or identity theft should consider disabling CSD. If you are concerned about remote exploitation, you can disable CSD for your user account. You can read more about disabling CSD. This issue can be exploited by remote attackers. This issue does not affect most devices. The only chips that are impacted by this issue are those that have an ARMv8 CPU and have a low-level 32-bit program counter architecture (PCA) mode of operation (or equivalent).

Android 8.0 Oreo

The vulnerability affects devices running Android with the Collaborative Software Development (CSD) enabled. When CSD is enabled, the operating system creates a “sandbox” around each application, limiting what the application can do on the system. This limits the impact of this vulnerability. Most users won’t be affected by this issue. However, users who work with sensitive data where the inability to verify data integrity could lead to issues like financial fraud or identity theft should consider disabling CSD. If you are concerned about remote exploitation, you can disable CSD for your user account. You can read more about disabling CSD. This issue can be exploited by remote attackers. This issue does not affect most devices. The only chips that are impacted by this issue are those that have an ARMv8 CPU. This issue was fixed in Android 9

CVE References Severity Impact CVE-2018-5353 Google 6 Low User exposure - unlikely to be exploitable by an attacker. User interaction is required

Timeline

Published on: 10/11/2022 20:15:00 UTC
Last modified on: 10/13/2022 02:40:00 UTC

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