CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-7953
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-07-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362
Description
Race condition in the bindBackupAgent method in the ActivityManagerService in Android 4.4.4 allows local users with adb shell access to execute arbitrary code or any valid package as system by running "pm install" with the target apk, and simultaneously running a crafted script to process logcat's output looking for a dexopt line, which once found should execute bindBackupAgent with the uid member of the ApplicationInfo parameter set to 1000.
Affected configurations
• google android 4.4.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
References
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/52 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535296/100/1100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74213 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/a8f6d1b%5E%21/ android.googlesource.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Apr/52 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/535296/100/1100/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74213 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/a8f6d1b%5E%21/ android.googlesource.com