CVE-2022-20234 Missing authorization in Android
An exported activity in Android Car Settings allows malicious apps to trick users into granting notification access, enabling theft of personal information.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-20234?
CVE-2022-20234 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Google Android, published on 13 Jul 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Car Settings app, the NotificationAccessConfirmationActivity is exported. In NotificationAccessConfirmationActivity, it gets both 'mComponentName' and 'pkgTitle' from user.An unprivileged app can use a malicous mComponentName with a benign pkgTitle (e.g. Settings app) to make users enable notification access permission for the malicious app. That is, users believe they enable the notification access permission for the Settings app, but actually they enable the notification access permission for the malicious app.Once the malicious app gets the notification access permission, it can read all notifications, including users' personal information.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-12LAndroid ID: A-225189301
Weakness: CWE-732
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-20234?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Google Android.
How do I fix CVE-2022-20234?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-20234 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2022-20234 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-20234 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Google Android
Sources
Also known as GHSA-v2x4-9328-wv22.