CVE-2025-8192 – Android TvSettings AppRestrictionsFragment Launch Anywhere Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2025-8192 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Jul. 31, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description There exists a TOCTOU race condition in TvSettings AppRestrictionsFragment.java that lead to start of attacker supplied activity in Settings’ context, i.e. system-uid context, thus lead to launchAnyWhere. The core idea is to utilize the time window between the check of Intent and the use to Intent to change the target component’s state, thus bypass the original security sanitize function.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:L/SI:H/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CWE CWE-367
    Added Reference https://defcon.org/html/defcon-33/dc-33-speakers.html#content_60309
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