CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-0384

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

CVE-2017-0384 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in libeffects in Audioserver that could allow a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue affects Android versions from 4.4.4 to 7.1.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability could allow malicious applications to gain access to elevated capabilities that are not normally accessible to third-party applications, posing a significant security risk to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the Android system to the latest version to mitigate the risks associated with this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in lvm/wrapper/Bundle/EffectBundle.cpp in libeffects in Audioserver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: 4.4.4, 5.0.2, 5.1.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0, 7.1. Android ID: A-32095626.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS