Privilege escalation
Published Oct 25, 2024 · Updated Oct 25, 2024
Privilege escalation in Google Android before 2024-10-05 allows remote authenticated users to gain elevated privileges on Pixel devices. The flaw is in the ABL component, but Google marks the associated bug as nonpublic and has not disclosed the incorrect operation or input that triggers it. The published assessment requires low privileges and no user interaction; successful exploitation grants higher privileges on an affected Pixel device.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Google Android before 2024-10-05 allows remote authenticated users to gain elevated privileges on Pixel devices. The flaw is in the ABL component, but Google marks the associated bug as nonpublic and has not disclosed the incorrect operation or input that triggers it. The published assessment requires low privileges and no user interaction; successful exploitation grants higher privileges on an affected Pixel device.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-47014
- Published
- Oct 25, 2024
- Updated
- Oct 25, 2024
- Vendor
- Product
- Android
- Classifications
- CWE-276, T1068
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Oct 25, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Oct 25, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=android_kernel
- Affected versionversion=Android kernel
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