CVE-2025-48551

Cross-user image disclosure via wrong-user editor launch

Published Sep 4, 2025 · Updated Sep 4, 2025

Information disclosure in Google Cloud Android 13 through 16 allows local users to read images across the Android User boundary via Sharesheet. IntentResolver's image-edit action launches the editor as the personal-profile user rather than the user that opened Sharesheet, granting the wrong profile access to the shared image. Exploitation requires low privileges and user interaction, and the demonstrated consequence is cross-user image disclosure without data modification.

CVSS severity5.0
Medium
EPSS probability0.08%
Next 30 days · Sep 16, 2026
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Based on sourced intelligence
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Summary

What happened

Information disclosure in Google Cloud Android 13 through 16 allows local users to read images across the Android User boundary via Sharesheet. IntentResolver's image-edit action launches the editor as the personal-profile user rather than the user that opened Sharesheet, granting the wrong profile access to the shared image. Exploitation requires low privileges and user interaction, and the demonstrated consequence is cross-user image disclosure without data modification.

The record

CVE
CVE-2025-48551
Published
Sep 4, 2025
Updated
Sep 4, 2025
Vendor
Google Cloud
Product
Android
Classifications
CWE-441, T1533
Attack vector
local
Privileges
authenticated

Timeline

How it unfolded

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

Exploitability

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  1. Affected versionversion=13
  2. Affected versionversion=14
  3. Affected versionversion=15
  4. Affected versionversion=16

What conditions does exploitation require?

Attack vectorlocal
Required privilegesauthenticated

What is affected?

Google Cloud · Androidversion=13; version=14; version=15; version=16

Published CVSS scores

5.0CISA-ADPCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Sep 10, 2026Sep 16, 2026
Latest reporting daySep 16, 2026
Latest daily unique IPsUnavailable
Prior 30-day averageUnavailable
SourceShadowserver honeypots (KEV)
Vectorlocal
Privilegesauthenticated
Known exploitationUnconfirmed
Public exploitUnconfirmed

Weakness, pattern, technique

CWE-441Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')
T1533Data from Local System

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