CVE-2025-12080 Intent Abuse in Google Messages for Wear OS for Silent Message Sending

On Wear OS devices, when Google Messages is configured as the default SMS/MMS/RCS application, the handling of ACTIONSENDTO intents utilizing the sms:, smsto:, mms:, and mmsto: Uniform Resource Identifier URI schemes is incorrectly implemented. Due to this misconfiguration, an attacker capable of...

CVE-2025-12080 Intent Abuse in Google Messages for Wear OS for Silent Message Sending

On Wear OS devices, when Google Messages is configured as the default SMS/MMS/RCS application, the handling of ACTIONSENDTO intents utilizing the sms:, smsto:, mms:, and mmsto: Uniform Resource Identifier URI schemes is incorrectly implemented. Due to this misconfiguration, an attacker capable of...

CVE-2025-12080

CVE-2025-12080 affects Google Messages for Wear OS when it is the default SMS/MMS/RCS app. The root cause is improper handling of ACTION_SENDTO intents using sms:, smsto:, mms:, and mmsto: URI schemes, enabling an attacker who can invoke an Android intent to covertly send messages on behalf of th...