CVE-2025-8192: android tv

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-8192 is a medium (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability in android tv. EPSS estimates a 0.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 0.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 31-07-2025
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 31-07-2025
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

There exists a TOCTOU race condition in TvSettings AppRestrictionsFragment.java that lead to start of attacker supplied activity in Settings’ context, i.e. system-uid context, thus lead to launchAnyWhere. The core idea is to utilize the time window between the check of Intent and the use to Intent to change the target component’s state, thus bypass the original security sanitize function.

• CWE-367Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race ConditionThe product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource's state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.