{"id":"CVE-2025-26435","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-26435","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T05:58:59.299Z","title":"This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed.","description":"In updateState of ContentProtectionTogglePreferenceController.java, there is a possible way for a secondary user to disable the primary user's deceptive app scanning setting due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation.","published":"2025-09-04T18:15:42.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T09:01:47.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@android.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":["google/android"],"epss":{"score":0.00084,"percentile":0.00261,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.08%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Settings/+/9dc0dd2c50ceb30ca5062ff3a02e48a8b4165863","tags":["Patch","Product"],"source":"security@android.com"},{"url":"https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2025-05-01","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@android.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26435","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}