CVE-2017-0505 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability affecting MediaTek components within Android devices, including various drivers like M4U, sound, touchscreen, GPU, and Command Queue. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the kernel context, leading to a critical, permanent device compromise requiring an OS reflash. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction, but grants high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 7.1.1CPE 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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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.