Android OS Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-09-08
Federal due date
2022-09-29
Vendor
Android
Product
Android OS
EPSS
97.3th percentile (score 0.383, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-1823

CISA short description

The vold volume manager daemon in Android kernel trusts messages from a PF_NETLINK socket, which allows an attacker to execute code and gain root privileges. This vulnerability is associated with GingerBreak and Exploit.AndroidOS.Lotoor.

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EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.