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CVE-2017-0553

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-0553 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the libnl library, affecting Android versions 5.0.2 through 7.1.1. A local malicious application could exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the Wi-Fi service's context. Rated as High severity with a CVSS score of 7.0, it requires compromising a privileged process first, making the attack complexity high. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:5.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0196 is in the 90th 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 (9)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: NetworkManager-libreswan-0:1.2.4-2.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libnl3-0:3.2.28-4.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: NetworkManager-1:1.8.0-9.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: network-manager-applet-0:1.8.0-3.el7
View patch
googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: libnl
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libnl
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: libnl3
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: libnl

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-0553Moderate

libnl: Integer overflow in nlmsg_reserve()

Feb 7, 2017

References

git.infradead.org / users/tgr/libnl.git/commit/3e18948f17148e6a3c4255bdeaaf01ef6081ceeb
lists.infradead.org / pipermail/libnl/2017-May/002313.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2299
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6VCF5KS6HOJZLFIY2ZSXSVSDQX65A2PU
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KIHASXRQO2YTQPKVP4VGIB2XHPANG6YX
source.android.com / security/bulletin/2017-04-01
Vendor Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / usn/usn-3311-1
securityfocus.com / bid/97340
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1038201
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-3311-2