Task Hijacking: Exploiting Android Task Control for Unauthorized App Takeover

CVE-2021-33699 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Task Hijacking is a vulnerability that affects the applications running on Android devices due to a misconfiguration in their AndroidManifest.xml with their Task Control features. This allows an unauthorized attacker or malware to takeover legitimate apps and to steal user's sensitive information.

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