CVE-2017-15817 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Qualcomm products running Android with Linux kernel releases from CAF. It allows an attacker to cause authentication failure when an access point sends a challenge text exceeding 128 bytes, due to the host driver's inability to validate it. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High) and could lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
Range not provided by sourceCPE 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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.