A malicious application with the INTERNET permission granted could retrieve all entries from the Download Provider internal database, bypassing all currently implemented access control mechanisms, by exploiting an SQL injection in the sort parameter (ORDER BY clause) and appending a LIMIT clause, which allows expressions, including subqueries.

The information retrieved from this provider may include potentially sensitive information such as file names, descriptions, titles, paths, URLs (which may contain sensitive parameters in the query strings), cookies, custom HTTP headers, etc., for applications such as Gmail, Google Chrome, the Google Play Store, etc.