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CVE-2017-0523

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-08 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Qualcomm Wi-Fi driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as High because it first requires compromising a privileged process. Product: Android. Versions: N/A. Android ID: A-32835279. References: QC-CR#1096945.

Affected products

• Android: through 7.1.1
• Linux kernel: through 3.18

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96735
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=5bb646471da76d3d5cd02cf3da7a03ce6e3cb582
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96735
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037968
• https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01
• https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/la/kernel/msm-3.18/commit/?id=5bb646471da76d3d5cd02cf3da7a03ce6e3cb582

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