CVE detail
CVE-2014-7952
The backup mechanism in the adb tool in Android might allow attackers to inject additional applications (APKs) and execute arbitrary code by leveraging failure to filter application data streams.
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Buzz score components · mention 13.9 · diversity 6.5 · KEV 0.0 · OTX 0.0 · PoC 0.0
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Evidence
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- Week in review: Emergency patches for actively exploited flaws, HTML5 can be used to hide malwareHelp Net Security
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, reviews and articles:First Java zero-day in two years exploited by Pawn Storm hackersThe flaw was spotted by Trend Micro researchers, who are closely monitoring a targeted attack campaign mounted by the economic and political cyber-espionage operation Pawn Storm. The bug has been fixed by Oracle on Wednesday.NowSecure Lab cloud: Mobile app assessment environmentNowSecure Lab is mobile app security assessment environment that comes in two … More →
newswww.helpnetsecurity.comJul 19, 2015, 10:36 PM - Flawed Android backup mechanism can lead to injected malicious appsHelp Net Security
A flaw (CVE-2014-7952) in Android’s backup/restore mechanism can be exploited by knowledgeable developers to “respawn” malicious apps on phones, and make them gain top-level access and potentially dangerous permissions that they didn’t have before.“Full backup of applications including the private files stored on /data partition is performed by default, but applications can customize this behavior by implementing a BackupAgent class,” Search-Lab researchers explained.“The backup manager, which invokes the custom BackupAgent does not filter the data … More →
newswww.helpnetsecurity.comJul 13, 2015, 5:26 AM A security bug in a backup mechanism of the Android operating system can be exploited to install malicious apps on vulnerable devices, researchers have warned. Google has confirmed the existence of the flaw, but the search giant says it’s a “low severity” issue.
newswww.securityweek.comJul 10, 2015, 9:06 AM
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