CVE-2017-6289

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-05-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

In Android before the 2018-05-05 security patch level, NVIDIA Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) contains a memory corruption (due to unusual root cause) vulnerability, which if run within the speculative execution of the TEE, may lead to local escalation of privileges. This issue is rated as critical. Android: A-72830049. Reference: N-CVE-2017-6289.

Affected products

Android: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104145
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-05-01
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104145
https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2018-05-01

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