Nov. 8, 2023, 2:31 p.m. | Xavier Cervilla

NCC Group Research Blog research.nccgroup.com

Overview Android 14 introduced a new feature which allows to remotely install CA certificates. This change implies that instead of using the /system/etc/security/cacerts directory to check the trusted CA’s, this new feature uses the com.android.conscrypt APEX module, and reads the certificates from the directory /apex/com.android.conscrypt/cacerts. Inspired by this blog post by Tim Perry, I decided to create a […]

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