CVE-2014-7951 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2014-7951?

CVE-2014-7951 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Google Android, published on 20 Feb 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Android debug bridge (aka adb) in Android 4.0.4 allows physically proximate attackers with a direct connection to the target Android device to write to arbitrary files owned by system via a .. (dot dot) in the tar archive headers.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-7951?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Google Android.

How do I fix CVE-2014-7951?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-7951 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2014-7951 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-7951 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hc8g-h86v-jpf8.