A local attacker may access and control the smart phone or read personal data from it.

Read smart phone data

A local attacker may access and control the smart phone or read personal data from it. This vulnerability is found in the system, which allows attackers to bypass authentication for third-party applications installed on the device.
While this vulnerability does not allow for complete compromise of the device, it does present a significant risk that a smart phone could be compromised by an attacker with limited skill sets.
Of course, this vulnerability can only be exploited by a local attacker; remote attackers would have to have physical access to the device being targeted.
As such, this vulnerability should not be taken lightly because there are some substantial risks involved with its exploitation.

Description

An example of a vulnerability is CVE-2022-41601. This vulnerability was discovered in Android where it was possible for local attackers to gain access and control over the smart phone or read personal data from it. The attacker would need to be physically near the victim device.

The reason why this vulnerability is important to cover is because it shows how an attacker could steal personal information and also access sensitive data on your smart phone.

Affected Pivotal Cloud Foundry Environment

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain access to the smart phone and read personal data from it.
This is a local-side attack.

Vulnerability summary

The vulnerability was found in the application of Samsung smartphones. This vulnerability may allow a local attacker to access and control the smart phone or read personal data from it.
The attacker may be able to perform other malicious activities on the device and gain remote access to networks running on the device.
There are no known exploits and no reported successful exploitation of this vulnerability.

Timeline

Published on: 10/14/2022 16:15:00 UTC
Last modified on: 10/15/2022 01:57:00 UTC

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