CVE-2017-0456

CVE-2017-0456 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm IPA driver affecting Android devices running Kernel-3.10 and Kernel-3.18. Rated as High severity with a CVSS score of 7.0, it allows a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the kernel context, though it first requires compromising a privileged process. The attack vector is local with high attack complexity, and successful exploitation could lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.