Local privilege escalation via persistence desynchronization
Published Mar 10, 2026 · Updated Mar 10, 2026
Elevation of privilege in Android's DeviceId component allows local users to gain higher privileges through persistence desynchronization. DeviceId.java fails to bounds-check persisted identifier data, allowing stored state to become desynchronized. Exploitation requires local access but no user interaction or additional execution privileges; the public Android bug contains no further mechanism details.
Summary
What happened
Elevation of privilege in Android's DeviceId component allows local users to gain higher privileges through persistence desynchronization. DeviceId.java fails to bounds-check persisted identifier data, allowing stored state to become desynchronized. Exploitation requires local access but no user interaction or additional execution privileges; the public Android bug contains no further mechanism details.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-48611
- Published
- Mar 10, 2026
- Updated
- Mar 10, 2026
- Vendor
- Go standard library
- Product
- Android
- Classifications
- CWE-120, T1404
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 10, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 10, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=Android Kernel
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