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Race condition in Download Manager in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 allows attackers to bypass private-storage file-access restrictions via a crafted application that changes a symlink target, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 26211054

Published Apr 18, 2016

Description

Race condition in Download Manager in Android 4.x before 4.4.4, 5.0.x before 5.0.2, 5.1.x before 5.1.1, and 6.x before 2016-04-01 allows attackers to bypass private-storage file-access restrictions via a crafted application that changes a symlink target, as demonstrated by obtaining Signature or SignatureOrSystem access, aka internal bug 26211054.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-362

Race Condition

References (2)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner google_android
Published Apr 18, 2016
Updated Aug 5, 2024
Reserved Dec 16, 2015
Link CVE-2016-0848
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2016-0848
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2016-0848