CVE-2014-7951

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-02-20 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Android debug bridge (aka adb) in Android 4.0.4 allows physically proximate attackers with a direct connection to the target Android device to write to arbitrary files owned by system via a .. (dot dot) in the tar archive headers.

Affected products

Android: 4.0.4

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131510/ADB-Backup-Traversal-File-Overwrite.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/51
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74211
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/7bc601d%5E%21/#F0
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36813/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131510/ADB-Backup-Traversal-File-Overwrite.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/51
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74211
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/7bc601d%5E%21/#F0
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36813/

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