Cyber Resilience

CVE-2018-9471

High

Published: 20 November 2024

Published
20 November 2024
Modified
18 December 2024
KEV Added
Patch
01 September 2018
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.7th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2018-9471 is a high-severity Type Confusion (CWE-843) vulnerability in Google Android. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In the deserialization constructor of NanoAppFilter.java, there is a possible loss of data due to type confusion. This could lead to local escalation of privilege in the system server with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed…

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for exploitation.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

google
android
7.0, 7.1.1, 7.1.2, 8.0, 8.1

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-787

Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.

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