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CVE-2017-17551

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The Backup and Restore feature in Mobotap Dolphin Browser for Android 12.0.2 suffers from an arbitrary file write vulnerability when attempting to restore browser settings from a malicious Dolphin Browser backup file. This arbitrary file write vulnerability allows an attacker to overwrite a specific executable in the Dolphin Browser's data directory with a crafted malicious executable. Every time the Dolphin Browser is launched, it will attempt to run the malicious executable from disk, thus executing the attacker's code.

Affected products

• Changyou Dolphin: 12.0.2

References

• https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2017-001.md
• https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2017-001.md

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