An elevation of privilege vulnerability in NFC could enable a proximate attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileg…

Published 9 y ago 2017-03-08 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

0.8%

percentile 57%

Public exploits

none known

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in NFC could enable a proximate attacker 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, 7.1.1. Android ID: A-33434992.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.81% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	9.3	`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`

Affected products

Google Inc. Android

Classification

Weakness

CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

References

source.android.com /security/bulletin/2017-03-01 · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
securitytracker.com /id/1037968 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/96765 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/96953 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
source.android.com /security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html · Vendor Advisory

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2017-0481
NVD: CVE-2017-0481

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