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CVE-2014-7920

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

mediaserver in Android 2.2 through 5.x before 5.1 allows attackers to gain privileges. NOTE: This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-7921.

Affected products

• Android: 2.2, 2.2-rev1, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.3 (+35)

References

• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/36d1577%5E%21/
• https://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/01/android-privilege-escalation-to.html
• https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/av/+/36d1577%5E%21/
• https://bits-please.blogspot.com/2016/01/android-privilege-escalation-to.html

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