Vulnerability · Published Sep 27, 2023 · Assigned by LGE

CVE-2023-44125Personalized service - Theft and (over-)write of arbitrary files with system privilege via PendingIntent hijacking

Medium 6.1

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in LG V60 Thin Q 5G(LMV600VM) from LG Electronics. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 3% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.1Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 96.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The vulnerability is the use of implicit PendingIntents without the PendingIntent.FLAG_IMMUTABLE set that leads to theft and/or (over-)write of arbitrary files with system privilege in the Personalized service ("com.lge.abba") app. The attacker's app, if it had access to app notifications, could intercept them and redirect them to its activity, before making it grant access permissions to content providers with the `android:grantUriPermissions="true"` flag.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
LG Electronics	LG V60 Thin Q 5G(LMV600VM)	Android 12, 13

Weakness: CWE-285 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://lgsecurity.lge.com/bulletins/mobile#updateDetails vendor-advisory