Local BLE privilege escalation via PIN type confusion
Published Jan 24, 2023 · Updated Apr 2, 2025
Type confusion in Android 10 through 13 Bluetooth allows local users to escalate BLE privileges through a crafted PIN reply. pinReplyNative treats JNI PIN-array storage as an incompatible native PIN-code object, permitting pin_reply to read beyond the supplied object; the fix adds a correctly sized buffer. A low-privileged local process can reach the flaw without user interaction, and the native-memory access crosses the BLE service privilege boundary.
Summary
What happened
Type confusion in Android 10 through 13 Bluetooth allows local users to escalate BLE privileges through a crafted PIN reply. pinReplyNative treats JNI PIN-array storage as an incompatible native PIN-code object, permitting pin_reply to read beyond the supplied object; the fix adds a correctly sized buffer. A low-privileged local process can reach the flaw without user interaction, and the native-memory access crosses the BLE service privilege boundary.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2022-20461
- Published
- Jan 24, 2023
- Updated
- Apr 2, 2025
- Vendor
- Product
- Android
- Classifications
- CWE-843, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- Unavailable
Timeline
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- Jan 24, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 2, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=Android-10 Android-11 Android-12 Android-12L Android-13
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