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Mitigating and remediating intent-based Android security vulnerabilities

What's this blog post about?

This article discusses mitigating and remediating intent-based Android security vulnerabilities. It highlights various use cases that either significantly reduced or completely eliminated the attack vector, including setting permissions for an activity, setting flags on the redirected intent, avoiding the use of URI_ALLOW_UNSAFE flag, and more. The article also provides remediation recommendations from Google Play and showcases a fix in the rif is fun for Reddit app. It emphasizes that using intents carelessly can cause severe security issues and suggests raising awareness among mobile developers to mitigate them effectively.

Company
Snyk

Date published
June 2, 2021

Author(s)
Raul Onitza-Klugman

Word count
1655

Language
English

Hacker News points
None found.


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