CVE-2025-48653
Published: 02 March 2026
Summary
CVE-2025-48653 is a high-severity Protection Mechanism Failure (CWE-693) vulnerability in Google Android. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068); ranked at the 0.2th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).
Threat & Defense at a Glance
Threat & Defense Details
Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5)AI
Timely identification, reporting, and correction of system flaws directly remediates the logic error in loadDataAndPostValue functions that obscures permission usage and enables local privilege escalation.
Enforces approved authorizations for logical access, directly countering the permission obscuring logic error that bypasses privilege checks.
Restricts system access to least privilege necessary, limiting the scope and impact of escalation from low-privilege local attackers exploiting the flawed permission logic.
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
Logic flaw directly enables local privilege escalation via permission abuse on the affected platform.
NVD Description
In loadDataAndPostValue of multiple files, there is a possible way to obscure permission usage due to a logic error in the code. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not…
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Deeper analysisAI
CVE-2025-48653 is a logic error in the loadDataAndPostValue function across multiple files that enables obscuring permission usage. This vulnerability affects Android devices and could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges or user interaction required. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H) and is linked to CWEs NVD-CWE-noinfo and CWE-693.
A local attacker with low privileges on an affected Android device can exploit this issue due to its low complexity and lack of user interaction requirements. Exploitation allows high-impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability violations, enabling privilege escalation within the local scope.
The Android security bulletin at https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2026/2026-03-01 advises applying the March 2026 security patch to mitigate the vulnerability in supported Android versions.
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