CVE-2022-26456 Path traversal in MT6769, MT6781, MT6785, MT6789, MT6833, MT6853, MT6855, MT6873, MT6875, MT6877, MT6883, MT6885, MT6889, MT6891, MT6893, MT6983, MT8185, MT8789, MT8791, MT8797

What is CVE-2022-26456?

CVE-2022-26456 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Google Android, published on 6 Sep 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In vow, there is a possible information disclosure due to a symbolic link following. This could lead to local information disclosure with System execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Patch ID: ALPS06545473; Issue ID: ALPS06545473.

Weakness: CWE-59

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-26456?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2022-26456?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-26456 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-2022-26456 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-26456 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-pgc7-59ch-pw36.