The majority of OnePlus phones in use today may be vulnerable to a security flaw that leaves SMS and MMS data exposed, and it won’t be patched until mid-October. Only OnePlus phones still running 2020’s OxygenOS 11 or earlier are believed to be safe from the flaw.
Security company Rapid7 was first to discover the vulnerability, which relates to changes OnePlus made to the Telephony service within Android. The long and short of it is that it would allow installed apps to access SMS data…
