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Android Privilege Escalation Vulnerability added to CISA Known Exploited Catalog - 20230914001

Overview

CISA has added CVE-2023-35674 to their Known Exploited Vulnerability Catalog.

Android have released a Security Bulletin containing details of security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices. The most severe of these vulnerabilities is a critical security vulnerability in the System component that could lead to remote (proximal/adjacent) code execution with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

What is the vulnerability?

CVE-2023-35674 - CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8

What is vulnerable?

The vulnerability affects all devices below Security patch levels of 2023-09-05

Recommendation

The WA SOC recommends administrators apply the solutions as per vendor instructions to all affected devices within expected timeframe of two weeks... (refer Patch Management):