CVE-2025-48572: Technical Deep-Dive (Auto Refreshed)

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Executive Technical Summary

In multiple locations, there is a possible way to launch activities from the background due to a permissions bypass. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.

• Context preserved from previous revision: In multiple locations, there is a possible way to launch activities from the background due to a permissions bypass. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Notes: "A single malicious packet can own your device." — Android Security Team, Nov 2025

Technical Details

• CVE: CVE-2025-48572
• KEV date added: 2025-12-02
• KEV due date: 2025-12-23
• NVD published: 2025-12-08
• NVD modified: 2025-12-10
• MITRE modified: 2026-02-26
• CVSS base score: 7.8
• CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
• CVSS exploitability score: 1.8
• CVSS impact score: 5.9
• Attack vector: Local
• Attack complexity: Low
• Privileges required: Low
• User interaction: None
• Scope: Unchanged
• Confidentiality impact: High
• Integrity impact: High
• Availability impact: High

Versions and Products Impacted

• google / android (versions: 13.0)
• google / android (versions: 14.0)
• google / android (versions: 15.0)
• google / android (versions: 16.0)
• Google / Android (versions: 16, 15, 14, 13)

Weakness Classification

• CWE-306
• Elevation of privilege

Repositories for Lab Validation (Public Examples)

• logesh-GIT001/CVE-2025-48593 | stars: 7 | updated: 2026-03-11 | https://github.com/logesh-GIT001/CVE-2025-48593
  Notes: "A single malicious packet can own your device." — Android Security Team, Nov 2025

People and Organizations Mentioned

• google_android
• Android
• Framework
• logesh-GIT001

Practical Defensive Validation (Authorized Only)

1. Use only isolated environments and systems you own or are explicitly authorized to test.
2. Snapshot infrastructure before validation and preserve baseline logs (EDR, SIEM, OS, app).
3. Create low-privilege users on google / android (versions: 13.0) and validate that patching blocks unauthorized admin-level actions.
4. Compare token/privilege transitions in Windows Event Logs before and after remediation.
5. Tune detections for unusual group membership changes and SYSTEM-level process launches from user sessions.

References

• NVD record: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48572
• MITRE CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48572
• CISA KEV Catalog: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
• CISA KEV JSON feed: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json
• KEV notes: https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-12-01 ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48572
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/e707f6600330691f9c67dc023c09f4cd2fc59192
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2025-12-01
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-48572
• Repository example: https://github.com/logesh-GIT001/CVE-2025-48593

This content is for defensive security training and authorized validation only.