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Google already has efforts to improve Android security, such as speeding up updates and offering bug bounties, but now it’s making things better by revealing flaws for software it didn’t write. The company has launched an Android Partner Vulnerability Initiative (via XDA Developers) to manage security flaws that you discover to be specific to third-party Android devices. Google hopes to both “push remediation” (read: request faster patch releases) and warn users of potential issues.
The company added that its initiative had already addressed a number of Android problems. It didn’t mention the companies by name in a blog post, but a bug tracker for the program did mention multiple manufacturers. Huawei struggled with insecure device backups in 2019, for example. The Oppo and Vivo phones had side discharge vulnerabilities. ZTE had weaknesses in its messaging service and browser autocompletion. Other affected vendors were Meizu, chipmaker MediaTek, Digitime and Transsion.
