CVE-2014-9792 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Qualcomm components of Android, specifically affecting Nexus 5 devices before the 2016-07-05 security update. This flaw, rooted in an incorrect integer data type in arch/arm/mach-msm/ipc_router.c, allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges through a crafted application. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it presents a significant risk, requiring user interaction (UI:R) but with low attack complexity (AC:L) and local access (AV:L) to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H). Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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