{"id":8043,"date":"2025-03-04T05:27:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/googles-march-2025-android-update-fixes-exploits\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T05:27:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T05:27:01","slug":"googles-march-2025-android-update-fixes-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/googles-march-2025-android-update-fixes-exploits\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s March 2025 Android Update Fixes Exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span class=\"p-author\"><i class=\"icon-font icon-calendar\">\ue802<\/i><span class=\"author\">Mar 04, 2025<\/span><i class=\"icon-font icon-user\">\ue804<\/i><span class=\"author\">Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span><\/span><span class=\"p-tags\">Vulnerability \/ Mobile Security<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"articlebody\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiHBInfbeD9mU4uKpQOrxpT7GJGc-ZFjauYvjGZw_c8VXj8uZp37ksocJlUT-D9itidgOxuIfFyzRok0HXgCGMxEScITDCnB8M1Nj_zoDr5Y9GaRtMcD6TZxQ3_i3eNIHLxCySavu3I96AHFgPVCQc0rsYy2RA3M_qszgPS_a32EqIXCk_KaLo1hSugdWvv\/s728-rw-e365\/android-update.png\" style=\"clear: left; display: block; float: left;  text-align: center;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/source.android.com\/docs\/security\/bulletin\/2025-03-01\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">issued<\/a> its monthly Android Security Bulletin for March 2025, addressing a total of 44 vulnerabilities. Notably, two of these vulnerabilities have been reported to be under active exploitation in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>The two high-severity vulnerabilities in question are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/android.googlesource.com\/platform\/frameworks\/base\/+\/7f83c671626f9bf993581f4598c22482d87cba10\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2024-43093<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; This vulnerability is a privilege escalation flaw within the Framework component. It could potentially allow unauthorized access to the &#8220;Android\/data,&#8221; &#8220;Android\/obb,&#8221; and &#8220;Android\/sandbox&#8221; directories and their respective sub-directories.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/android.googlesource.com\/kernel\/common\/+\/f02dd268a08d4e7ec09ec0ddd2a861ab5a51a0ae\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CVE-2024-50302<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; This is a privilege escalation flaw located in the HID USB component of the Linux kernel. It could lead to the leakage of uninitialized kernel memory to a local attacker through specially crafted HID reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is worth mentioning that CVE-2024-43093 was <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/11\/google-warns-of-actively-exploited-cve.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">previously identified<\/a> by Google in its security advisory for November 2024 as being actively exploited in the wild. The reasons behind the tech giant&#8217;s decision to issue the alert a second time are not clear.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dog_two clear\">\n<center class=\"cf\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.uk\/cis-securesuite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cybersecurity\"><br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" alt=\"Cybersecurity\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhsFQaSLfkFdKcodtNnSya8V2yj1C_ZVcqQImhnHDikdLhrgZ4hoAIdzNPEjMn6tIl2dSBa9PZVJm5Q6CW4Iprd32O0xaNt3UTVX1U9kEK629GDLqpr7Dd6lynygeNXdkuKNi_TlVZ1vRZI_fXFdvFwBm25WNf4tQHZfgpXHiaw1nnd6E5jLX8vrn4fB3mN\/s728-e100\/cis-d.png\" width=\"727\" height=\"90\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Hacker News has reached out to Google for additional comments and will update the story if a response is received.<\/p>\n<p>CVE-2024-50302 was one of the three vulnerabilities <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/02\/amnesty-finds-cellebrites-zero-day.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">utilized by Cellebrite<\/a> in a zero-day exploit to breach the Android phone of a Serbian youth activist in December 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The exploit involved chaining CVE-2024-53104, CVE-2024-53197, and CVE-2024-50302 to gain elevated privileges, likely for the deployment of an Android spyware known as NoviSpy.<\/p>\n<p>All three vulnerabilities are located in the Linux kernel and were patched late last year. CVE-2024-53104 was <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/02\/google-patches-47-android-security.html\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">addressed<\/a> by Google in Android last month.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s advisory notes that both CVE-2024-43093 and CVE-2024-50302 have been subjected to &#8220;limited, targeted exploitation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To provide flexibility to Android partners in addressing vulnerabilities that are common across all Android devices more quickly, Google has released two security patch levels: 2025-03-01 and 2025-03-05.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"cf note-b\">Found this article interesting? 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