What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-20971

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2023-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

In removePermission of PermissionManagerServiceImpl.java, there is a possible way to obtain dangerous permissions without user consent due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

Affected products

• Android: 13.0

References

• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/6c22d6c1e69676c5c68d21928aa5486bfd1bd131
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2024-08-01
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2023-06-01

Get alerted when CVE-2023-20971 or the next vulnerability affects your stack