CVE-2014-9878 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Qualcomm components of Android, specifically affecting Nexus 5 devices before the 2016-08-05 security update. This flaw allows a crafted application to gain elevated privileges by exploiting a failure to reject kernel-space buffer addresses in the drivers/mmc/card/mmc_block_test.c component. Rated with a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) but can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:H/I:H/A:H). There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| 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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