CVE-2018-5854 describes a high-severity stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting the fastboot component across all Android releases from CAF using the Linux kernel, specifically impacting Android for MSM, Firefox OS for MSM, and QRD Android. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this local vulnerability (AV:L) allows an attacker with low privileges (PR:L) to achieve high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts (C:H/I:H/A:H) without user interaction (UI:N). Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, indicating a low current threat landscape.
| 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:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.