CVE-2017-0563
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the HTC touchscreen driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 0.89%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the HTC touchscreen driver could enable a local malicious application to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. This issue is rated as Critical due to the possibility of a local permanent device compromise, which may require reflashing the operating system to repair the device. Product: Android. Versions: Kernel-3.10. Android ID: A-32089409.
Timeline
ID reserved
By google_android
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.89% · top 40% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
- affected Kernel-3.10
References
6
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/May/19 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-04-01 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 97342 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://alephsecurity.com/vulns/aleph-2017009 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/alephsecurity/PoCs/tree/master/CVE-2017-0563 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1038201 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-0917 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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