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A Formal Specification of Access Control in Android with URI Permissions

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  • Samir Talegaon

    (The University of Texas at San Antonio)

  • Ram Krishnan

    (The University of Texas at San Antonio)

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A formal specification of access control yields a deeper understanding of any operating system, and facilitates performing security analysis of the OS. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive formal specification of access control in Android (ACiA). Prior work is limited in scope, furthermore, recent developments in Android concerning dynamic runtime permissions require rethinking of its formalization. Our formal specification includes three parts, the user-initiated operations (UIOs) and app-initiated operations (AIOs) - which are distinguished based on the initiating entity, and the URI permissions which are utilized in sharing temporary access to data. We also studied the evolution of URI permissions from API 10 (Gingerbread) to API 22 (Lollipop), and a brief discussion on this is included in the paper. Formalizing ACiA allowed us to discover many peculiar behaviors pertaining to ACiA. In addition to that, we discovered two significant issues with permissions in Android which were reported to Google.

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  • Samir Talegaon & Ram Krishnan, 2021. "A Formal Specification of Access Control in Android with URI Permissions," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 849-866, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:infosf:v:23:y:2021:i:4:d:10.1007_s10796-020-10066-9
    DOI: 10.1007/s10796-020-10066-9
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    1. Sanjay K. Sahay & Nihita Goel & Murtuza Jadliwala & Shambhu Upadhyaya, 2021. "Advances in Secure Knowledge Management in the Artificial Intelligence Era," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 807-810, August.

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