Method of counteracting unauthorized privilege escalation in android operating system based on hardware virtualization technology

Abstract

Method of counteracting unauthorized privilege escalation in android operating system based on hardware virtualization technology

Paguba G.Yu., Permyakov D.N., Samarin N. N., Sobolyev N.V.

Incoming article date: 07.08.2025

The paper proposes a method to counteract unauthorized privilege escalation in the Android operating system. The proposed method involves using the ARM architecture’s hardware virtualization technology to control access to to the operating system’s kernel data structures that store task identification information.  

Keywords: information security, privilege escalation, Android, hypervisor