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CVE-2019-2215

92
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-2215 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in the Android Linux Kernel's binder.c, allowing an unprivileged application to achieve elevation of privilege. This flaw impacts various Android devices from vendors like Google, Canonical, Debian, Huawei, and NetApp. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it requires local access but no user interaction, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, with public Metasploit modules and ExploitDB entries available, and has garnered significant community discussion and media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:cloud_backup:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netapp:data_availability_services:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
43.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Nov 3, 2021
Metasploit: Android Binder Use-After-Free Exploit · Sep 26, 2019
ExploitDB: EDB-48129 · Feb 24, 2020
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4382 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-2215Moderate

kernel: Use-after-free in binder.c

Oct 16, 2019

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
packetstormsecurity.com / files/154911/Android-Binder-Use-After-Free.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
packetstormsecurity.com / files/155212/Slackware-Security-Advisory-Slackware-14.2-kernel-Updates.html
PatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
packetstormsecurity.com / files/156495/Android-Binder-Use-After-Free.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2019/Oct/38
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/01/msg00013.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00001.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Nov/11
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20191031-0005
Third Party Advisory
source.android.com / security/bulletin/2019-10-01
Vendor Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 4186-1
Third Party Advisory
huawei.com / en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20191030-01-binder-en
Third Party Advisory