CVE-2017-0445

CVE-2017-0445 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the HTC touchscreen driver affecting Android devices running Kernel-3.18. A local malicious application could exploit this flaw to execute arbitrary code within the kernel's context. Rated High with a CVSS score of 7.0, exploitation requires compromising a privileged process, making it a high-complexity attack. Successful exploitation grants an attacker full control over the affected device. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.