Vulnerability · Published Sep 13, 2023 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2023-42468
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity privilege mismanagement in the affected software. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.2% (higher than 68% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
The com.cutestudio.colordialer application through 2.1.8-2 for Android allows a remote attacker to initiate phone calls without user consent, because of improper export of the com.cutestudio.dialer.activities.DialerActivity component. A third-party application (without any permissions) can craft an intent targeting com.cutestudio.dialer.activities.DialerActivity via the android.intent.action.CALL action in conjunction with a tel: URI, thereby placing a phone call.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-269
