CVE-2025-26427

Local privilege escalation via unfiltered document queries

Published Sep 4, 2025 · Updated Feb 26, 2026

Path traversal in Android DocumentsUI on Android 13 and 14 allows local users to gain privileges through restricted Android/data access. FileSystemProvider query variants did not consistently hide Android/data, Android/obb, and Android/sandbox descendants. Exploitation requires user interaction but no additional execution privileges, and the resulting access exposes or permits modification of protected application data.

CVSS severity4.4
Medium
EPSS probability0.11%
Next 30 days · Sep 16, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
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Summary

What happened

Path traversal in Android DocumentsUI on Android 13 and 14 allows local users to gain privileges through restricted Android/data access. FileSystemProvider query variants did not consistently hide Android/data, Android/obb, and Android/sandbox descendants. Exploitation requires user interaction but no additional execution privileges, and the resulting access exposes or permits modification of protected application data.

The record

CVE
CVE-2025-26427
Published
Sep 4, 2025
Updated
Feb 26, 2026
Vendor
Google Cloud
Product
Android
Classifications
CWE-24, T1005
Attack vector
local
Privileges
unauthenticated

Timeline

How it unfolded

  1. Sep 4, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
  2. Feb 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.

Exploitability

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  1. Affected versionversion=13
  2. Affected versionversion=14

What conditions does exploitation require?

Attack vectorlocal
Required privilegesunauthenticated

What is affected?

Google Cloud · Androidversion=13; version=14

Published CVSS scores

4.4CISA-ADPCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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Sep 9, 2026Sep 15, 2026
Latest reporting daySep 15, 2026
Latest daily unique IPsUnavailable
Prior 30-day averageUnavailable
SourceShadowserver honeypots (KEV)
Vectorlocal
Privilegesunauthenticated
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Public exploitUnconfirmed

Weakness, pattern, technique

CWE-24Path Traversal: '../filedir'
T1005Data from Local System

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