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CVE-2017-13215

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-13215 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability found in the upstream kernel's skcipher component, specifically affecting Android kernel versions. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
23.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0031 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

googlepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-862.11.6.rt56.819.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kernel-0:3.10.0-862.11.6.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: kernel-0:3.10.0-693.47.2.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: kernel-rt-1:3.10.0-693.47.2.rt56.641.el6rt
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Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-13215Important

kernel: crypto: privilege escalation in skcipher_recvmsg function

Jan 2, 2018

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2384
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:2395
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:1170
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2019:1190
source.android.com / security/bulletin/2018-01-01
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/102390
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1040106
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry