Android users, government has an important warning for you

Android

The India Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has found new security flaws within Android operating system. The government body has issued an advisory for this classifying it as “High” severity. CERT-In has mentioned in the advisory note that the security flaws found within Android affect multiple versions of it and it can let attackers gain elevated privileges and perform denial of service (DoS) on the targeted device.

The warning

According to the government body, attackers can leverage the existing vulnerabilities within the Android operating system to target a device and gain privileged access which can result in stealing sensitive data like passwords, banking information, etc.

Affected Android versions and devices

The vulnerability note mentions that the newly found security flaws affect Android 12, Android 12L, Android 14 and Android 14 versions of Android. This means, all the devices including smartphones, tablets, etc running on the said versions are affected.

Why these vulnerabilities exist

“These vulnerabilities exist in Android due to flaws in the Framew Provisioning subcomponent), Kernel, Arm component, Imaginat components and Qualcomm closed-source components”, reads the vulnerability note.

What users can do

Well, as per the advisory issued, the government body has asked users to update their device to the latest software update or security update available for their device.