Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile up to SD 845 Android Command Line Tool Account privilege escalation

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear and Snapdragon Automobile (Chip Software). This affects a function of the component Android Command Line Tool. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability (Account). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A new account can be inserted into simContacts service using Android command line tool in Snapdragon Automobile, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Wear in MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9650, MSM8909W, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 425, SD 430, SD 450, SD 615/16/SD 415, SD 617, SD 625, SD 650/52, SD 820, SD 820A, SD 835, SD 845.

The weakness was shared 05/06/2019. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2017-18275 since 05/18/2018. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 05/07/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The issues 134405, 134406, 134408 and 134411 are related to this entry.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.5

VulDB Base Score: ≈5.5
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Class: Privilege escalation / Account (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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0-Day Time: ?05/18/2018 CVE assigned
05/06/2019 +353 days Advisory disclosed
05/07/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
05/07/2019 +0 days VulDB last updateCVE: CVE-2017-18275 (?)
See also: ?Created: 05/07/2019 07:09 AM
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