An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek ioctl (flashlight).

published 2017-11-16 8y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-1218

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits: 0; none known

An elevation of privilege vulnerability in the MediaTek ioctl (flashlight). Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-37277147. References: M-ALPS03394571.

Patch / fix

links 1

source.android.com/security/bulletin/pixel/2017-11-01 advisory

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Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Google Inc. Android

References

source.android.com /security/bulletin/pixel/2017-11-01
patch, vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-0864
NVD CVE-2017-0864

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