A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Google Android (Smartphone Operating System) (version unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component Motorola Bootloader. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Motorola bootloader. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-62345044.

The bug was discovered 10/01/2017. The weakness was presented 10/04/2017 as A-62345044 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at source.android.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-0829 since 11/29/2016. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 11/21/2019). It is expected to see the exploit prices for this product increasing in the near future.The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

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, 107403 and 107404 for similar entries.

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