CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17551
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Backup and Restore feature in Mobotap Dolphin Browser for Android 12.0.2 suffers from an arbitrary file write vulnerability when attempting to restore browser settings from a malicious Dolphin Browser backup file. This arbitrary file write vulnerability allows an attacker to overwrite a specific executable in the Dolphin Browser's data directory with a crafted malicious executable. Every time the Dolphin Browser is launched, it will attempt to run the malicious executable from disk, thus executing the attacker's code.
Affected configurations
• changyou dolphin 12.0.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2017-001.md Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/VerSprite/research/blob/master/advisories/VS-2017-001.md Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory