Wednesday, 20 July 2016

App circumvents storage permission in Marshmallow



I own a Sony Z3 compact with Marshmallow 6.0.1 on it.
There is an pre-installed App called File Commander, which is an app to browse the contents of internal and sd card storage.
I have revoked all runtime permission from it in Android settings dialog.
Still, in this app I can explore all contents on my sd-card, delete files and view pictures.
Just to make sure that this App does not simply view this picture in another app put up front, I revoked storage permission from all apps (yes, also system apps). It would not make a difference.

How is that possible? It seems that Androids permission framework (on storage, at least) is easily exploitable.



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