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Adobe Digital Editions for Android < 4.5.13 Path Traversal via ReaderMainActivity

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Severity
medium
Date
Affecting
  • Digital Editions for Android < 4.5.13

CWE
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CVSS
6
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:H/SA:N
References
Credit
Edward "Actuator" Warren
Description
Adobe Digital Editions for Android before 4.5.13 contains a path traversal vulnerability that allows a co-installed, zero-permission application to write attacker-controlled content to attacker-chosen file paths by exploiting unsanitized _display_name values from a malicious content provider processed by the exported ReaderMainActivity. Because the app holds MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission, attackers can craft a provider URI with a path-traversal sequence in _display_name and a superstring authority containing com.google.android.apps.docs.storage to escape the app sandbox and create new files within the app's private directory or other apps' shared storage directories.

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