Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-0393

High

Published: 10 March 2021

Published
10 March 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0191 83.7th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-0393 is a high-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Google Android. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 16.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Scanner::LiteralBuffer::NewCapacity of scanner.cc, there is a possible out of bounds write due to an integer overflow. This could lead to remote code execution if an attacker can supply a malicious PAC file, with no additional execution privileges needed. User…

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interaction is not needed for exploitation.Product: AndroidVersions: Android-11 Android-8.1 Android-9 Android-10Android ID: A-168041375

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

google
android
10.0, 11.0, 8.1, 9.0

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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