CVE-2025-8192

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-25 | Published 2025-07-31 | Updated 2025-07-31 | Assigner Google

Problem types

CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Product status

Credits

Qidan He finder

References

defcon.org/html/defcon-33/dc-33-speakers.html

cve.org (CVE-2025-8192)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-8192)

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