CVE-2011-1823 is a critical vulnerability affecting the vold volume manager daemon in Android 2.x before 2.3.4 and Android 3.0. It allows local attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution and gain root privileges by exploiting a negative index in the DirectVolume::handlePartitionAdded method, leading to memory corruption. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant risk with low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Notably, it is listed in CISA's KEV catalog, confirming active exploitation, and has garnered substantial community attention and media coverage, despite no public exploit code being readily available in Metasploit or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.0, < 2.3.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.