CVE-2025-8192 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-8192

Race condition in AndroidTV TvSettings

Vulnerability Description

There exists a TOCTOU race condition in TvSettings AppRestrictionsFragment.java that lead to start of attacker supplied activity in Settings’ context, i.e. system-uid context, thus lead to launchAnyWhere. The core idea is to utilize the time window between the check of Intent and the use to Intent to change the target component’s state, thus bypass the original security sanitize function.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Qidan He

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

TV
Vulnerable Versions:
0

Timeline

Official Publish: July 31st, 2025
Last Modified: July 31st, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-367

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow
Privilege Escalation
T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
Privilege Escalation
T1036 Masquerading
Defense Evasion
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact
T1005 Data from Local System
Collection