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CVE-2019-9461

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-9461 is an information disclosure vulnerability in the Android kernel's VPN routing functionality, affecting Google Android devices. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.5) allows an adjacent network attacker to remotely disclose information without requiring user interaction or additional execution privileges. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, including a related article on inferring and hijacking VPN-tunneled TCP connections.

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: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
71.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0150 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 1,802 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

googlevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-9461Moderate

kernel: information disclosure via VPN routing

Sep 3, 2019

References

source.android.com / security/bulletin/pixel/2019-09-01
Vendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2019/12/05/1
ExploitMailing List
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2019/12/05/2
ExploitMailing List
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2019/12/08/1
ExploitMailing List