Android Framework background activity launch privilege escalation
CVE-2025-48572 is a high-severity elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in the Android Framework affecting Android 13, 14, 15, and 16. According to the provided content, the flaw exists in multiple locations and allows activities to be launched from the background due to a permissions bypass. This enables a malicious local application to perform unauthorized background activity launches that should be restricted by the framework’s permission and activity-launch controls. Google indicated the issue was under limited, targeted exploitation at the time of disclosure.
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Impact
What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
Mitigation
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Remediation
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Exploits
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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
Affected products & vendors
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Vendor-confirmed product mapping. Mallory continuously reconciles this list against your asset inventory.
Recent activity
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.
The version that knows your environment.
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.