{"id":139905,"date":"2022-05-28T09:02:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/microsoft-finds-severe-bugs-in-android-apps-from-large-mobile-providers"},"modified":"2022-05-28T09:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T14:02:18","slug":"microsoft-finds-severe-bugs-in-android-apps-from-large-mobile-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/microsoft-finds-severe-bugs-in-android-apps-from-large-mobile-providers","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft finds severe bugs in Android apps from large mobile providers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-finds-severe-bugs-in-android-apps-from-large-mobile-providers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft security researchers have found high severity vulnerabilities in a framework used by Android apps from multiple large international mobile service providers.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found these vulnerabilities (tracked as <a href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-42598\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2021\u201342598<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-42599\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2021\u201342599<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-42600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2021\u201342600<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-42601\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CVE-2021\u201342601<\/a>) in a mobile framework owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mce.systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mce Systems<\/a> exposing users to command injection and privilege escalation attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The vulnerable apps have millions of downloads on Google\u2019s Play Store and come pre-installed as system applications on devices bought from affected telecommunications operators, including AT&amp;T, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.telus.checkup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TELUS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.fivemobile.myaccount\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rogers Communications<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.ca.bell.contenttransfer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bell Canada<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.freedom.mlp.uat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Freedom Mobile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft security researchers have found high severity vulnerabilities in a framework used by Android apps from multiple large international mobile service providers. The researchers found these vulnerabilities (tracked as CVE-2021\u201342598, CVE-2021\u201342599, CVE-2021\u201342600, and CVE-2021\u201342601) in a mobile framework owned by mce Systems exposing users to command injection and privilege escalation attacks. The vulnerable apps have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}