Memory corruption in NVIDIA Android
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-119 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
In Android before the 2018-05-05 security patch level, NVIDIA Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) contains a memory corruption (due to unusual root cause) vulnerability, which if run within the speculative execution of the TEE, may lead to local escalation of privileges. This issue is rated as critical. Android: A-72830049. Reference: N-CVE-2017-6289.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2017-6289
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-h925-mm85-mc8q
References
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Sources
- CVE-2017-6289 · CVE Program
- CVE-2017-6289 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-h925-mm85-mc8q · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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