CVE-2010-4804

medium

Published 2011-06-09 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

The Android browser in Android before 2.3.4 allows remote attackers to obtain SD card contents via crafted content:// URIs, related to (1) BrowserActivity.java and (2) BrowserSettings.java in com/android/browser/.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-18164 webapps android

Thomas Cannon · 2011-11-28

Google Android - 'content://' URI Multiple Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

auxiliary_gather/android_htmlfileprovider rank 300

Android Content Provider File Disclosure

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.