CWE-925: Improper Verification of Intent by Broadcast Receiver

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The Android application uses a Broadcast Receiver that receives an Intent but does not properly verify that the Intent came from an authorized source.

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Extended Description

Certain types of Intents, identified by action string, can only be broadcast by the operating system itself, not by third-party applications. However, when an application registers to receive these implicit system intents, it is also registered to receive any explicit intents. While a malicious application cannot send an implicit system intent, it can send an explicit intent to the target application, which may assume that any received intent is a valid implicit system intent and not an explicit intent from another application. This may lead to unintended behavior.

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