Local privilege escalation via Zygote command injection
Published Jul 9, 2024 · Updated Aug 2, 2024
Local privilege escalation in Google Android 12 through 14 allows local users to execute code as any app through a crafted global setting. ZygoteProcess writes newline-containing hidden_api_blacklist_exemptions values into Zygote's line-delimited socket protocol without rejecting or escaping them, so injected lines become a second process-spawn command. Exploitation requires WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, held by the ADB shell and certain privileged apps, and grants access to another app's data and privileges without user interaction.
Summary
What happened
Local privilege escalation in Google Android 12 through 14 allows local users to execute code as any app through a crafted global setting. ZygoteProcess writes newline-containing hidden_api_blacklist_exemptions values into Zygote's line-delimited socket protocol without rejecting or escaping them, so injected lines become a second process-spawn command. Exploitation requires WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS, held by the ADB shell and certain privileged apps, and grants access to another app's data and privileges without user interaction.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-31317
- Published
- Jul 9, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 2, 2024
- Vendor
- Product
- Android
- Classifications
- CWE-502, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 9, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 2, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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Is a vulnerable build present?
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- Affected versionversion=12
- Affected versionversion=12.0
- Affected versionversion=12l
- Affected versionversion=12L
- Affected versionversion=13
- Affected versionversion=13.0
- Affected versionversion=14
- Affected versionversion=14.0
What conditions does exploitation require?
What is affected?
Attacks
What attackers are doing with it
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Weakness, pattern, technique
Public exploit references
- Meta Red Team X Zygote command-injection proof of conceptfunctional · demonstrated
- agg23 Android exploit demonstration repositoryproof of concept · unverified
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