CVE-2021-0673 is a high-severity permission bypass vulnerability in the Audio Aurisys HAL, affecting Google and MediaTek products, specifically Android smartphones. This flaw allows for local escalation of privilege without requiring user interaction or additional execution privileges. With a CVSS score of 7.8, exploitation is low complexity and can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, media coverage indicates widespread impact, with reports of it affecting a significant percentage of Android devices and potentially enabling eavesdropping. There is no public exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and community discussion is limited, suggesting it is not currently under active exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:12.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.