CVE-2022-20050 Path traversal in MT6762, MT6765, MT6768, MT6769, MT6779, MT6781, MT6785, MT6795, MT6797, MT6799, MT6833, MT6853, MT6853T, MT6873, MT6875, MT6877, MT6880, MT6883, MT6885, MT6889, MT6891, MT6893, MT8163, MT8167, MT8167S, MT8168, MT8173, MT8175, MT8183, MT8185, MT8321, MT8362A, MT8365, MT8385, MT8666, MT8667, MT8675, MT8696, MT8735A, MT8735B, MT8765, MT8766, MT8768, MT8786, MT8788, MT8789, MT8791, MT8797

What is CVE-2022-20050?

CVE-2022-20050 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Google Android, published on 9 Mar 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In connsyslogger, there is a possible symbolic link following due to improper link resolution. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06335038; Issue ID: ALPS06335038.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20050?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2022-20050?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-20050 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2022-20050 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20050 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Google Android vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-63v5-c5m5-hpfx.