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CVE-2018-9477

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-9477 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in the development options section of the Google Android Settings app. It allows for local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges, though user interaction is required for exploitation. The CVSS score is 7.8 (High), indicating a significant potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:google:android:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
0.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0009 is in the 0th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

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 (1)

googlepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

source.android.com / security/bulletin/2018-09-01
PatchVendor Advisory