CVE-2025-8192 Race condition in AndroidTV TvSettings
A race condition in Android TV Settings allows attackers to launch arbitrary activities with system privileges, enabling privilege escalation and code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-8192?
CVE-2025-8192 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Android TV, published on 31 Jul 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-367
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-8192?
How do I fix CVE-2025-8192?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-8192 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-8192 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-8192 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-g89h-pfwv-vrq2.