Security bypass in Google Android - CVE-2013-7372
Published: January 16, 2017 / Updated: March 24, 2017
Vulnerability identifier: #VU4749
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-7372
CWE-ID: CWE-310
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Google
Affected software:
Google Android
Google Android
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a renote attacker to bypass security restriction on the target system.
The weakness is due to the use of an incorrect offset value by the engineNextBytes function in Apache Harmony, as used in the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) in Android . A remote attacker can leverage the resulting PRNG predictability, defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms and launch further attacks on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerablity results in security bypass on the vulnerable system.
The weakness is due to the use of an incorrect offset value by the engineNextBytes function in Apache Harmony, as used in the Java Cryptography Architecture (JCA) in Android . A remote attacker can leverage the resulting PRNG predictability, defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms and launch further attacks on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerablity results in security bypass on the vulnerable system.
How to mitigate CVE-2013-7372
Update to version 4.4.