CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-0411

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition

Published: Feb 08, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
9.3 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Framework APIs could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of a privileged process. This issue is rated as High because it could be used to gain local access to elevated capabilities, which are not normally accessible to a third-party application. Product: Android. Versions: 7.0, 7.1.1. Android ID: A-33042690.

Weakness

The product checks the state of a resource before using that resource, but the resource’s state can change between the check and the use in a way that invalidates the results of the check.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
AndroidGoogle7.0 (including)7.0 (including)
AndroidGoogle7.1.0 (including)7.1.0 (including)
AndroidGoogle7.1.1 (including)7.1.1 (including)
AndroidUbuntuesm-apps/xenial*
AndroidUbuntutrusty*
AndroidUbuntuvivid/stable-phone-overlay*
AndroidUbuntuxenial*
AndroidUbuntuyakkety*
AndroidUbuntuzesty*

Potential Mitigations

References