A vulnerability was found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (affected version not known). It has been classified as critical. This affects some unknown functionality of the component Broadcom WiFi Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Broadcom wifi driver. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-37622847. References: B-V2017063001.

The bug was discovered 10/01/2017. The weakness was presented 10/04/2017 as A-37622847 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at source.android.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-0824 since 11/29/2016. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/21/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

See 98332, 107387, 107404 and 107405 for similar entries.

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