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CVE-2017-0521

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-0521 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm camera driver affecting Android devices running Kernel-3.10 and Kernel-3.18. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.0) requires a local malicious application to first compromise a privileged process before it can execute arbitrary code within the kernel context. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:3.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.0HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
76.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0179 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 386 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

googlepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

source.android.com / security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html
PatchVendor Advisory
source.android.com / security/bulletin/2017-03-01
source.codeaurora.org / quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/96951
securitytracker.com / id/1037968