A vulnerability has been found in Google Android on Pixel C (Smartphone Operating System) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part of the component Serial Peripheral Interface Driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

The serial peripheral interface driver in Android before 2016-07-05 on Pixel C devices allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted application, aka internal bug 28430009.

The weakness was disclosed 07/06/2016 as Android Security Bulletin - July 2016 as confirmed security bulletin (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at source.android.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-3808 since 03/30/2016. The exploitation appears to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. A single authentication is necessary for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. 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 02/22/2019). 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.

Upgrading to version 2016-07-05 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The entries 88897, 88898, 88899 and 88900 are pretty similar.

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