CVE-2025-5154 (GCVE-0-2025-5154)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-25 18:31 – Updated: 2025-05-28 17:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
PhonePe App SQLite Database databases cleartext storage in a file or on disk
Summary
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in PhonePe App 25.03.21.0 on Android. Affected is an unknown function of the file /data/data/com.phonepe.app/databases/ of the component SQLite Database. The manipulation leads to cleartext storage in a file or on disk. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-27 14:21 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://vuldb.com/?id.310242 | vdb-entry |
| https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.310242 | signaturepermissions-required |
| https://vuldb.com/?submit.576245 | third-party-advisory |
| https://github.com/honestcorrupt/-Insecure-Local-… | patch |
| https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Xj9y2w3E9… | exploit |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | PhonePe App |
Affected:
25.03.21.0
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Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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