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MICROSOFT AUTHENTICATOR FLAW LETS MALICIOUS ANDROID APPS STEAL ACCOUNT TOKENS WITH ZERO PERMISSIONS

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Microsoft released an update to its Authenticator for Android app that could enable a local privilege escalation attack. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to receive a token for any Microsoft app with a work profile installed on the device. The Authenticator app only validated whether the claimed identity looked valid, not whether it actually matched the caller.