CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2020-0204 — In InstallPackage of package.cpp, there is a possible bypass of a signature check due to a Time of Check/Time of Use condition
In InstallPackage of package.cpp, there is a possible bypass of a signature check due to a Time of Check/Time of Use condition. This could lead to local escalation of privilege by allowing a bypass of the initial zip file signature check for an OS update with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-10Android ID: A-136498130
- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7 (3.1)
- Published
- 2020-06-11
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- operating-system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-367
Affected products
- google / android / 10.0
Matched remediation archetype
Race condition, TOCTOU, and lifecycle synchronization
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Check exposure
- Map concurrent actors, shared state, lock boundaries, signals, callbacks, retries, and check-then-use sequences in the affected path.
- Determine whether untrusted users can influence timing, object names, filesystem state, or repeated state transitions.
- Identify clustered and multi-process behavior that repository-local tests may not represent.
Remediate safely
- Make the sensitive state transition atomic or protect it with a consistently ordered synchronization primitive.
- Perform authorization and invariant checks on the same authoritative object and transaction used for the operation.
- Use unique private resources, safe ownership transfer, and idempotent operations; add deterministic concurrency regression tests.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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