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TI-2018-14164 Aliases CVE-2018-19981GHSA-4rp2-whvp-25jm

Amazon AWS SDK <=2.8.5 for Android uses Android SharedPreferences to store plain text AWS…

Priority LOW 35CWE-312Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Information disclosure
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-312.

Summary

Amazon AWS SDK <=2.8.5 for Android uses Android SharedPreferences to store plain text AWS STS Temporary Credentials retrieved by AWS Cognito Identity Service. An attacker can use these credentials to create authenticated and/or authorized requests. Note that the attacker must have "root" privilege access to the Android filesystem in order to exploit this vulnerability (i.e. the device has been compromised, such as disabling or bypassing Android's fundamental security mechanisms).

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.01797 78th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 4 exploit referencesTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:amazon:aws_software_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:*up to 2.8.5VulnerableAWS
  • cpe:2.3:a:amazon:aws_software_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:android:*:* Versions up to 2.8.5 Vulnerable ·AWS

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2018-19981
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4rp2-whvp-25jm

References

Exploit 4

  • TI-2022-04321 AWS SDK XML Parser XpathUtils.java XpathUtils server-side request forgery CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2026-15952 Out-of-bounds read in the Base64 decoder in Amazon aws-sdk-cpp on signed-char platforms CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.0
  • TI-2026-15951 Out-of-bounds write in the Base64 decoder in Amazon aws-sdk-cpp CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.0
  • TI-2023-28302 Potential URI resolution path traversal in the AWS SDK for PHP CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.0
  • TI-2022-02384 Exposure of unencrypted plaintext hash in github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3

Sources

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