[DO NOT MERGE] Don't allow permission change to runtime Prevent apps to change permission protection level to dangerous from any other type as this would allow a privilege escalation where an app adds a normal permission in other app's group and then redefines it as dangerous leading to the group auto-grant. Test: Added a CTS test which passes. Bug: 33860747 Change-Id: I1ccf546f78ee79ff027cb98124be81c8e5265a82 (cherry picked from commit fe430be9f102893c95258cc81589df132b7d02b3)
diff --git a/services/core/java/com/android/server/pm/PackageManagerService.java b/services/core/java/com/android/server/pm/PackageManagerService.java index 4e542e1c..1583f90 100644 --- a/services/core/java/com/android/server/pm/PackageManagerService.java +++ b/services/core/java/com/android/server/pm/PackageManagerService.java
@@ -15075,6 +15075,20 @@ + perm.info.name + "; ignoring new declaration"); pkg.permissions.remove(i); } + } else if (!PLATFORM_PACKAGE_NAME.equals(pkg.packageName)) { + // Prevent apps to change protection level to dangerous from any other + // type as this would allow a privilege escalation where an app adds a + // normal/signature permission in other app's group and later redefines + // it as dangerous leading to the group auto-grant. + if ((perm.info.protectionLevel & PermissionInfo.PROTECTION_MASK_BASE) + == PermissionInfo.PROTECTION_DANGEROUS) { + if (bp != null && !bp.isRuntime()) { + Slog.w(TAG, "Package " + pkg.packageName + " trying to change a " + + "non-runtime permission " + perm.info.name + + " to runtime; keeping old protection level"); + perm.info.protectionLevel = bp.protectionLevel; + } + } } } }