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CVE-2025-48572 is a high-severity elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Android Framework affecting Android 13, 14, 15, and 16. The flaw is described as a permissions bypass present in multiple locations that makes it possible to launch activities from the background when such launches should be restricted. By bypassing intended permission or policy enforcement around background activity starts, a local attacker can abuse normal app execution context to perform actions with greater privileges than intended. Exploitation does not require user interaction and has been reported as occurring under limited, targeted exploitation.
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What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
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Vendor-confirmed product mapping. Mallory continuously reconciles this list against your asset inventory.
29 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A high-severity Android zero-day previously patched by Google and described as being under limited, targeted exploitation.
A high-severity Android zero-day vulnerability patched by Google in December and described as under limited, targeted exploitation.
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Android Framework component that Google states has been exploited in the wild (limited/targeted).
Android privilege escalation vulnerability described as a zero-day and actively exploited.
Query your assets running an affected version, and investigate the blast radius.
Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
Malware families riding this exploit, with evidence and IOCs.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
Community discussion across Reddit, Mastodon, and other social sources.