CVE-2017-0435

CVE-2017-0435 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm sound driver affecting Android devices running Kernel-3.10 and Kernel-3.18. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel's context, requiring an initial compromise of a privileged process. Rated High with a CVSS score of 7.0, the attack complexity is high due to the prerequisite of compromising a privileged process, but the potential impact includes high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.