What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-7921

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% 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 4.0.3 through 5.x before 5.1 allows attackers to gain privileges. NOTE: This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-7920.

Affected products

• Android: 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.1, 4.1.2, 4.2, 4.2.1 (+11)

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

Get alerted when CVE-2014-7921 or the next vulnerability affects your stack