Local privilege escalation via cleared request credentials
Published May 1, 2026 · Updated May 1, 2026
Privilege escalation in AGL app-framework-binder through 19.90.0 allows local users to execute registered APIs with daemon privileges. The supervision Do handler clears the request credential context before dispatching attacker-selected api and verb values, so authorization checks that treat NULL credentials as trusted fail open. Low-privilege access to the ungated UNIX supervision socket is required, and successful exploitation grants the privileges of afb-daemon.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in AGL app-framework-binder through 19.90.0 allows local users to execute registered APIs with daemon privileges. The supervision Do handler clears the request credential context before dispatching attacker-selected api and verb values, so authorization checks that treat NULL credentials as trusted fail open. Low-privilege access to the ungated UNIX supervision socket is required, and successful exploitation grants the privileges of afb-daemon.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-37525
- Published
- May 1, 2026
- Updated
- May 1, 2026
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-269, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- May 1, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- May 1, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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