CVE-2024-13917 - Kruger&Matz Applock System Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

CVE-2024-13917 - Kruger&Matz Applock System Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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CVE ID : CVE-2024-13917
Published : May 30, 2025, 4:15 p.m. | 1 hour, 26 minutes ago
Description : An application "com.pri.applock", which is pre-loaded on Kruger&Matz smartphones, allows a user to encrypt any application using user-provided PIN code or by using biometric data. Exposed ”com.pri.applock.LockUI“ activity allows any other malicious application, with no granted Android system permissions, to inject an arbitrary intent with system-level privileges to a protected application. One must know the protecting PIN number (it might be revealed by exploiting CVE-2024-13916) or ask the user to provide it. Vendor did not provide information about vulnerable versions. Only version (version name: 13, version code: 33) was tested and confirmed to have this vulnerability
Severity: 0.0 | NA
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