A privilege escalation vulnerability checking system for android applications

摘要: Android is a free, open source mobile platform based on the Linux kernel. The openness of application attracts developers, both benign and malicious. depends privilege separation to isolate applications from each other system. However, recent research reported that genuine exploited at runtime or malicious can escalate granted permissions. attack carelessly designed which fails protect permissions it. In this research, we propose vulnerability checking system check if an be potentially leveraged by attacker launch such escalation attack. We downloaded 1038 wild found 217 vulnerable need further inspection.