Comment by charcircuit

Comment by charcircuit 2 days ago

2 replies

From the article:

>To gain these elevated privileges, Pixel IMS uses Shizuku, an open source Android app that lets other apps run processes as the shell user.

It's possible for an app to use wireless debugging to debug the phone it's running on to get shell permissions.

ycombinatrix 2 days ago

Only if you allow it. This security patch doesn't affect that at all, so why is that relevant?