> Google assured me it is taking action, telling me that “out of an abundance of precaution, we will be removing this from all supported in-market Pixel devices with an upcoming Pixel software update. The app is not present on Pixel 9 series devices.” And while iVerify’s report focused on Pixel, Google also said it is “notifying other Android OEMs.”<p>Just as I saw this HN thread and started reading the article, I also noticed on my Pixel 8 phone had an Android 14 update (the "August 5th, 2024" update) which included this security patch: <a href="https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2024-08-01" rel="nofollow">https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/pixel/2024...</a><p>It includes 1 CVE patch for Pixel: CVE-2024-32927, which has a "high" severity and is an "Elevation of privilege" type. Android Bug ID: 312268456*.<p>When you look up the CVE is has no details, and the asterisk next to the Android Bug ID means that it's not publicly available[1]. This article just posted today but I wonder when the research and interviews for the article happened. Maybe the August patch includes the fix, or maybe it'll be the next one.<p>1. <a href="https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/312268456" rel="nofollow">https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/312268456</a> - this is the android bug link, you can see in the network you get a 403 from one of the api calls, but for other bugs you don't