Critical System Property Modification Vulnerability Enables Unauthorized ADB Access

CVE-2023-43488 · HIGH Severity

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

The vulnerability allows a low privileged (untrusted) application to modify a critical system property that should be denied, in order to enable the ADB (Android Debug Bridge) protocol to be exposed on the network, exploiting it to gain a privileged shell on the device without requiring the physical access through USB.

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