CVE-2023-42739: Google Android

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In engineermode service, there is a possible way to write permission usage records of an app due to a missing permission check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed

Affected products

• Google Android: version 11.0 only; version 12.0 only; version 13.0 only

Published 2023-12-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.