Hacker Rewarded $70,000 for Finding Way to Bypass Google Pixel Phones' Lock Screens

Google has resolved a high-severity security issue affecting all Pixel smartphones that could be trivially exploited to unlock the devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20465 and reported by security researcher David Schütz in June 2022, was remediated as part of the search giant's...

CVE-2022-20465

CVE-2022-20465 affects Android 10–13 where a logic error in KeyguardHostViewController.java (and related files) can cause a lockscreen bypass via the dismiss() flow, enabling local privilege escalation without user interaction. Connected sources confirm the vulnerable component and impact; mitiga...