CVE-2011-1717

FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-1717 describes a vulnerability in Skype for Android where sensitive user data, including IDs, contacts, and message logs, is stored unencrypted in sqlite3 databases with weak permissions. This allows other local applications to access private information. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), indicating local access is required for exploitation and only confidentiality is impacted. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:skype:skype_for_android::::::::

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Access Vector

LOCAL

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.9

CvssVersion

2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.29%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

21.5%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-26

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0029 is in the 5th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

blogs.skype.com / security/2011/04/privacy_vulnerability_in_skype.html

androidpolice.com / 2011/04/14/exclusive-vulnerability-in-skype-for-android-is-exposing-your-name-phone-number-chat-logs-and-a-lot-more

Exploit

securitytracker.com / id

theregister.co.uk / 2011/04/15/skype_for_android_vulnerable