Google Warns of New Android 0-Day Vulnerability Under Active Targeted Attacks
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2020-11261 | Local Privilege Escalation via Memory Corruption in Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets | 7.8 | 2% | KEV | KEV |
CVE-2021-0889+2 related CVEs | In Android TV , there is a possible silent pairing due to lack of rate limiting in the pairing flow | 9.8 group max | 2% | ||
| CVE-2021-1048 | Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation in Android Kernel (CVE-2021-1048) | 7.8 | 1% | KEV | KEV |
CVE-2021-1905+1 related CVE | Use-After-Free in Qualcomm Snapdragon Chipsets Allows Local Privilege Escalation | 7.8 group max | 2% | KEV | KEV |
CVE-2021-1975+1 related CVE | Possible heap overflow due to improper length check of domain while parsing the DNS response in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity… | 9.8 group max | <1% | ||
CVE-2021-28663+1 related CVE | Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation in Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver | 8.8 | 12% | KEVPoC | KEV |
From the original article
2 min read at thehackernews.com
Google has rolled out its monthly security patches for Android with fixes for 39 flaws, including a zero-day vulnerability that it said is being actively exploited in the wild in limited, targeted attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-1048 , the zero-day bug is described as a use-after-free vulnerability in the kernel that can be exploited for local privilege escalation.
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