CVE-2019-1010221

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-07-23 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

LineageOS 16.0 and earlier is affected by: Incorrect Access Control. The impact is: The property checked by `adb root` can also be set in a normal adb shell session. The component is: adb shell (patches to fix this are at https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_system_core/+/234800, https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_device_lineage_sepolicy/+/234799). The attack vector is: When adb is enabled, and an attacker has physical access, `adb shell setprop service.adb.root 1` allows restarting adb as root.

Affected products

LineageOS: through 16.0

References

https://gist.github.com/zifnab06/e31ad63596b63a95e061bfe1f49ff0a7
https://gist.github.com/zifnab06/e31ad63596b63a95e061bfe1f49ff0a7

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