CVE-2010-4804
The Android browser in Android before 2.3.4 allows remote attackers to obtain SD card contents via crafted content:// URIs, related to (1)…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 27.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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/.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Android Content Provider File Disclosure (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/gather/android_htmlfileproviderRank normal
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Google Android - 'content://' URI Multiple Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18164webapps, androidpublished 28 Nov 2011Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 27.2% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 48256 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.slashgear.com/android-data-theft-exploit-to-be-plugged-in-gingerbread-video-24116054/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/packages/apps/Browser.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=604a598e1e01bda781600a45e0a971898a582666 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://thomascannon.net/blog/2010/11/android-data-stealing-vulnerability/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/frameworks/base.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f440831d76817e837164ca18c7705e81d2391f87 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/nexuss.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-4769 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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