Local privilege escalation via missing permission check
Published Sep 4, 2023 · Updated Oct 3, 2024
Missing authorization in UNISOC vowifiservice on Android 9 through 11 allows local users to gain elevated privileges. The service omits a permission check, but UNISOC has not disclosed the protected operation, request path, or code-level locus. Exploitation requires local execution on a device using an affected chipset; public sources do not define the resulting privilege level.
Summary
What happened
Missing authorization in UNISOC vowifiservice on Android 9 through 11 allows local users to gain elevated privileges. The service omits a permission check, but UNISOC has not disclosed the protected operation, request path, or code-level locus. Exploitation requires local execution on a device using an affected chipset; public sources do not define the resulting privilege level.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-38459
- Published
- Sep 4, 2023
- Updated
- Oct 3, 2024
- Vendor
- UNISOC
- Product
- UNISOC T610
- Classifications
- CWE-862, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Sep 4, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 3, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=android9_andriod10_android11
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