RootExplorer Man-In-The-Middle / Remote Code Execution

2016.07.14
Risk: Medium
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: N/A
CWE: N/A

Disclosure timeline ===================== June 11th: discovered issues. June 12th: contacted App developer. June 12th: App developer replies that the new App is not ready yet, but will not download assets from HTTP. June 13th: asked how much time it'll take to fix, App developer didn't respond. July 2nd: App developer queried again, but failed to respond. July 8th: App developer got his 3rd notice, but failed to respond. July 9th: full disclosure. Technical details ================== RootExplorer is a rooted Android App aimed to ultimately control file operations on an Android device. Unfortunately, RootExplorer tries to download an external busybox from plain a HTTP website, which might cause rooted remote code execution. Blogpost ======= http://securitygodmode.blogspot.com/2016/07/android-attack-surfaces-part-ii.html

References:

http://securitygodmode.blogspot.com/2016/07/android-attack-surfaces-part-ii.html


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