{"id":1705,"date":"2016-12-02T12:24:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T11:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2022-12-09T17:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:04:28","slug":"multiple-vulnerabilities-in-android-airdroid-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2016\/12\/02\/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-android-airdroid-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple vulnerabilities in Android AirDroid app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/android.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"58\">AirDroid is a popular Android app used by over 50 million users to remote access devices. But security researchers from Zimperium found multiple vulnerabilities and recommend uninstalling this app. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A research at Zimperium highlights how insecure communication channels make millions of AirDroid users vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks, information leakage and remote hijacking of update APK which leads to a remote code execution by a malicious party. The attacker exploits the app's built-in functionalities and uses them against its users.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"AirDroid\" alt=\"AirDroid\" src=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140713224028\/http:\/\/img197.imageshack.us\/img197\/7943\/win01.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>Affected is the Android AirDroid app up to latest version 4.0 available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airdroid.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">airdroid.com<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.sand.airdroid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Play Store<\/a>. Zimperium has reported the vulnerabilities, but till now also AirDroid 4.0.1 is vulnerable. Zimperium has documented the details in a blog post Analysis of multiple vulnerabilities in AirDroid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AirDroid is a popular Android app used by over 50 million users to remote access devices. But security researchers from Zimperium found multiple vulnerabilities and recommend uninstalling this app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[533,60,69],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","tag-airdroid","tag-android","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}