CVE-2017-3749 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Idea Friend Android application on Lenovo VIBE mobile phones. This flaw allows private data backup and restoration via Android Debug Bridge, which, when combined with CVE-2017-3748 and CVE-2017-3750, enables an attacker to gain elevated privileges. With a CVSS score of 6.4 (Medium), exploitation requires physical access (AV:P) and high attack complexity (AC:H), but can lead to high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion, though it did receive limited media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:google:android:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.2 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.