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How My Rogue Android App Could Monitor & Brute-force Your App’s Sensitive Metadata

TL;DR: A rogue Android app could read any other App’s file metadata: filename, size, last modification date. If a filename contained sensitive predictable data, the rogue Android app could locally brute-force this, which was the case for Instagram on Android. Through the leakage of filesize and last modification date, a rogue Android app could monitor real-time usage of others apps. The file system permissions bug has been present in Android since the very beginning. Google rated this vulnerability as a low risk issue and paid out a $500 bug bounty.

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