Security Resilience

CVE-2023-40093

Google Android 11.0 … 14.0

Published
16 February 2024
Modified
03 December 2024
Patch / advisory
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 2th percentile
Risk Priority 40 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2023-40093 is a medium-severity Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information (CWE-922) vulnerability in Google Android. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and AC-6 (Least Privilege) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A01:2025 Broken Access Control

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

In multiple files, there is a possible way that trimmed content could be included in PDF output due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local information disclosure with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction…

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is not needed for exploitation.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-922

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Affected Assets

google
android
11.0, 12.0, 12.1, 13.0, 14.0

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

AC-3 Access Enforcement good match

Enforces approved authorizations for logical access to stored information, directly stopping unauthorized read/write.

SC-28 Protection of Information at Rest good match

Requires protection of confidentiality/integrity for information at rest, directly addressing insecure storage.

AC-6 Least Privilege good match

Limits privileges so only authorized accesses to sensitive stored data are permitted.

AC-16 Security and Privacy Attributes partial match

Associates security attributes with information to support proper access decisions on storage.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

A.7.14 Secure disposal or re-use of equipment none match
blocks

A.7.14 addresses end-of-life physical destruction, sanitization or label removal on equipment/media already containing data; it does not stop the product from storing sensitive information without limiting unauthorized read/write access in the first place.

Hardening callouts derived

DISA STIG baselines are authored against specific weaknesses. Where this CVE cites a broad weakness class, the mapping is not asserted at that abstraction (owner ruling, 2026-09-25: grade only at Base and below), so no rule is shown here rather than a rule shown against the wrong grain.

  • No fine-grained STIG row for CWE-922, a class-level weakness. Rules are authored against its narrower children: CWE-312.

References