LineageOS 16.0 and earlier is affected by: Incorrect Access Control.
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Physical
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.0 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
LineageOS 16.0 and earlier is affected by: Incorrect Access Control. The impact is: The property checked by `adb root` can also be set in a normal adb shell session. The component is: adb shell (patches to fix this are at https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_system_core/+/234800, https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_device_lineage_sepolicy/+/234799). The attack vector is: When adb is enabled, and an attacker has physical access, `adb shell setprop service.adb.root 1` allows restarting adb as root.
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-2019-1010221
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-qj8f-q4w4-3qfp
References
More Lineageos vulnerabilities
- TI-2017-04628 The msm_bus_dbg_update_request_write function in… CVSS 3.0MEDIUM 6.2
Sources
- CVE-2019-1010221 · CVE Program
- CVE-2019-1010221 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-qj8f-q4w4-3qfp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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