Hackers only need a phone number to gain access to Galaxy S22, Galaxy A53, Pixel 6, Pixel 6a, and a bunch of other Android devices.
, a team of security analysts at Google that aims to protect people from targeted attacks, has found eighteen 0-day vulnerabilities in Exynos modems. A 0-day vulnerability is a flaw that was previously unknown to the product vendor.The flaws were discovered between late 2022 and early 2023 and four of them allowed for internet-to-baseband remote code execution.
Tests conducted by Project Zero confirm that those four vulnerabilities allow an attacker to remotely compromise a phone at the baseband level with no user interaction, and require only that the attacker know the victim's phone number. With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely.
The remaining related vulnerabilities are not as severe and would require a malicious mobile network operator or direct access to a device.
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